Category: The Bookshelf
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Book Review: Finding the Way Home
A friend recently gave me a new book to read and asked if I would consider reviewing it on my blog. Her mother wrote it. I said, “Yes,” but hesitantly, because, well, you know, what if I didn’t like it? What would I say? What would I do? So I read it. In 2 days.…
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Sunday Selections: “Describing the Indescribable”
A friend recently sent me a link to an article called Describing the Indescribable. (The poem is a link within a link, so be sure to read the article, then download the poem.) It’s a wonderful piece written by Dr. David P. Murray, and it describes the darkness of depression and the way it immobilizes…
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Sunday Selections: We Shall Get In
God has given us the Morning Star already: you can go and enjoy the gift on many fine mornings if you get up early enough. What more, you may ask, do we want? Ah, but we want so much more – something the books on aesthetics take little notice of. But the poets and the…
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What if…?
What if you slept? And what if in your sleep you dreamed? And what if in your dream, you went to Heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you woke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah! What then? (~Samuel Taylor Coleridge) I am so very, very blessed!…
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Moonless Seas
“All along, let us remember, we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey… ‘And only Heaven is better than to walk with Christ at midnight, over moonless seas–‘ I couldn’t feel frightened then. Praise Him for the moonless seas– all the better the opportunity for proving Him to be indeed the El Shaddai,…
A Spring of Joy 