Category: The Bookshelf
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November
Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapory air, Ere, o’er the frozen earth, the loud winds run, Or snows are sifted o’er the meadows bare. One smile on the brown hills and naked trees, And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast, And the blue gentian flower,…
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Sunday Selections: On Parenting
Just a couple posts about parenting that blessed, convicted and encouraged me this week, so I’m sharing them here: This post was a good reminder to consider what I say, how I speak, and how to encourage others in this parenting role. Beautiful and so very true… Parenting is complicated; it’s wonderful and challenging. Exhausting…
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Believing: Day 9
That a word of encouragement is always worth sharing… “…celebrating the smallness of a mother’s day in and day out is more than just making it through – friends, it’s a wild dance of recognition, of celebration, of courage. It has to be more than finding meaning in the laundry. It has to be a…
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Believing: Day 7
In Valor. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan…As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense…With confidence in our…
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This Breath That Wafts
The breath that wafts from some blessed corner of Paradise gives sweetness to the bitterness of this region, it tempers the curse on this earth of ours. (~Ephrem the Syrian) A few days ago, I sat across from my oncologist at a routine six month checkup and found myself catching my breath once again. I…
A Spring of Joy 