Category: The Bookshelf
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Emma Grace… And More
Here she is, friends. And may I just say this trip was one. of. the. best. EVER. I ended 2008 with Beth, started 2009 with Monica, and visited friends and family in between. It really was so wonderful that I have no way to describe it other than with thankful bits of our week. Logging…
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Revealing Structure
Strangely I have found in my own life that it is only through a wintry spirituality that I am able to affirm summer and sunshine. A friend wrote me recently, ‘Winter reveals structure.’ Only as the structure is firmly there are we able to dress it with the lovely trappings of spring, budding leaves, rosy…
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A Thought For The New Year
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tunes without the words, And never stops at all. ~Emily Dickenson
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The Folly Of The Lord
One of the things I love about this Advent season is hearing the story of Christ’s birth told and re-told, sung and re-sung. (I am greatly missing that this year as our church hasn’t done it’s usual Advent series.) So I have been reading and re-reading, whether it’s through the Word or through books or…
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Winter Solstice
“In a way Winter is the real Spring – the time when the inner things happen… Edna O’brien
A Spring of Joy 