I love the idea of book clubs, but I’m rubbish about following through. Also, after my initial burst of enthusiasm for the first book on the reading list, I tend to get a bit antsy.
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Books to warm your heart
These are old favorites (or new/newer favorites) that I come back to again and again because they only get better with re-reading. They’re cozy, funny, heart-warming, uplifting, maybe even inspiring.
Read Moresnapshots from crazy
dear people who read my blog, i’ve thought of such lovely things to tell you. i’ve thought deep thoughts, shallow thoughts, sad thoughts, happy thoughts … and haven’t had sufficient time to write them down. life is busy. but busy with good things. so here’s an update on my life lately, according to instagram. the…
Read Morestorytime
dear squirts, i bought us a copy of winnie the pooh the other day. i say “us” because i haven’t read it but promise to read it to you once upon a time in the land of someday. we’ll have secret toast and tea and honey and marmalade and loll about on the grass like…
Read More“i will learn to love the skies i’m under”
“‘i mean,’ he said with increasing vehemence, ‘that if there be a house for me in heaven it will either have a green lamp-post and a hedge, or something quite as positive and personal as a green lamp-post and a hedge. i mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do…
Read Moreas much soul
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you, — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to…
Read Moreface-to-face with the valley
The opposite of a childlike spirit is a cynical spirit. Cynicism is, increasingly, the dominant spirit of our age. Personally, it is my greatest struggle in prayer. If I get an answer to prayer, sometimes I’ll think, It would have happened anyway. Other times I’ll try to pray but wonder if it makes any difference.…
Read Moreback to school
my last first day of class was four and a half years ago when i began my senior spring semester at KU (right after a huge snow storm and while i was recovering from pneumonia, i might add). my first day of fencing class was eight years ago, when i was a senior in high…
Read Moreseeing heaven through hell
“Your patient will, of course, have picked up the notion that he must submit with patience to the Enemy’s will. What the Enemy means by this is primarily that he should accept with patience the tribulation which has actually been dealt out to him — the present anxiety and suspense. It is about this that…
Read Moreblow away
a wind sprang high in the west like a wave of unreasonable happiness and tore eastward across england, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. in a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. in the inmost…
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