Assorted thoughts on the anniversary of 9/11

My memories of 9/11. Front pages of the last ten years related to 9/11. “Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It’s a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It’s also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays [...]

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Laudable Linkage and Videos

I found a lot of great reading this week. Here’s some of it: How to Get the Most Out of Your Pastor’s Preaching. One quote: “If your heart is humble, your focus won’t be on evaluating the message or how it’s delivered; you will let the message evaluate you.” Ouch. Discernment and Sexual Predators. Sad [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share five of our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go [...]

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Rambles…

I don’t know if anyone reads this type of post, but I’m just rambling about what’s going on in our lives lately… Last weekend we spent a few days at our old house in SC to get it ready to put on the market. We hadn’t put it on the market yet because the market [...]

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Book Review: The Shape of Mercy

I read Susan Meissner’s Lady in Waiting last year and subsequently wanted to read more of her books. So I recently picked up The Shape of Mercy which was published in 2008, and I remembered several bloggers mentioning it and liking it, so I decided to give it a try. In The Shape of Mercy, [...]

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Book Review: Peace Like a River

I had seen many bloggers refer to Peace Like a River by Leif Enger years ago, and I put the title on my TBR list, but only got to it the last couple of weeks: my family wanted ideas for my birthday, and I scanned my list of TBR titles and suggested this one and [...]

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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Laudable Linkage

I was so sorry to have missed the Friday’s Fave Five yesterday! There were some things that *had* to get done yesterday, so I figured I’d better do those first…and it is a good thing I did! Instead of writing a very late FFF post, I decided just to wait til next week. But I [...]

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Book Review: Goforth of China

Goforth of China by Rosalind Goforth is a book I have read many times, and I recently felt an urge to revisit it. It has taken me a while to talk about it, though, because I have so many places marked in it, it would be impossible to share all of them. Jonathan Goforth grew [...]

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