So why use a fictitious character?

Victoria Sponge is actually a very real character and I suspect that many of you have some of her gems as part of your life too. 

By making and writing about a fictitious character more challenges can be explored. Her family can be extended and issues raised in a way that may not be otherwise possible. 

If I only referred to my own life experiences I would miss the opportunity to connect with other potential challenges. We all have stories, material for humorous gaffs, disasters that mold our being and these can come over a long period of time and that would make the telling of the story boring and tedious. How  many of us experience our years in a week? Well I hope that many of you don't, but perhaps for some this is possible, but it may break the camel's back. 

Victoria Sponge tells her story over the seven days of Holy Week. Her day is split up into four sections, Morning Prayer, Afternoon Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer. Her journey flows from each day uniting in Christ's own Holy Week. 

Sometimes we might feel that our whole life has been stuck in Holy Week. Well Christ doesn't want us to be left there. He wants us to rise after our falls and to dig deep with His Powerful help and take his courage to pull our cross to the next stage. When we fall we need to ask God why? What is not aligned in our life  with God's Will, that is tripping us up? What heaviness is pushing us down and making us stumble. God is our alignment; through His Will we are healed and helped to look at the Son again and through His sacrifice we are blessed and saved and our life changed.