Category: The Bookshelf
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Sunday Selections: Community
“Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone.” (Deitrich Bonhoeffer)
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Quirks
There are things about my B that drive me absolutely crazy. I get frustrated. Sometimes I get downright mad. And this morning we had an argument over the most inane thing. Because, well, I’m a woman and he’s a man and we think differently. There are things that we laugh about now: –the way he…
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Sunday Selections: Stronger
It’s National Cancer Survivors’ Day today. Here is a quote that I clung to during the past 18 months of surgeries, treatment and recovery. And here’s to the thousands of survivors out there who have battled this brutality and are living life! Jesus Christ is stronger! Stronger than my fears about the future or my…
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Sunday Selections: Come Messy
From Paul Miller’s, A Praying Life, as quoted on the Of First Importance blog: “Jesus does not say, ‘Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.’ No, Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, ‘Come to…
A Spring of Joy 