Category: The Bookshelf
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Believing: Day 5
In the dawn of redeeming grace. I am a sucker for music that’s well done, especially in worship. This weekend, we went to church with our friends, Marni & Tim. The choir was outstanding, and the children’s choir was amazing. Add in an organ and full-blown orchestra while we all sang Christmas carols, and I…
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Memories
What if you couldn’t remember? “What’s a memory?” he asked. “Something warm, my child. something warm.” “What’s a memory?” he asked. “Something from long ago, me lad. Something from long ago.” “What’s a memory?” he asked. “Something that makes you cry, my boy. Something that makes you cry.” “What’s a memory?” he asked. “Something that…
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Sunday Selections: Needing to SEE
From Steven Curtis Chapman’s liner notes on nis new CD release. This is his first CD after the death of his daughter, Maria. I am blown away! Shortly after Maria had been carried away to Jesus, all of us, and particularly Caleb and I began to talk about how desperate we were just to “SEE”…
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Brag On Him
In February, I wrote a post about my Brian, and today it’s being featured on the Blissfully Domestic blog. Malia has a weekly column called Brag on Him (Don’t Nag on Him). I’m there today… and I’m bowled over by what was happening in our life just 8 months ago. Not only is it a…
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Another Form of Craziness
She wished the foliage would work in reverse, that you could see colors most of the time, the uniform green for only a few short weeks. But who could endure such richness? Surely people would go crazy from so much beauty. Or else they’d get used to it, and then ignore it, another form of…
A Spring of Joy 