Oh, my. I really had no intention of not posting for quite this long. I almost forgot how to login. Here I am, and I believe I’m going to reinstate Wednesdays with Words for 2022. Wednesdays with Words was a linkup first begun by Cindy Rollins lo these many blog-years ago. I took it over…
I’ve been reading Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung for a year now – mostly because I have been both crazy busy and avoidant. It’s not a long book; quite short in fact, but strongly convicting. On Sunday, I decided that I needed a sabbath from the internet. The desire to be on Facebook or scrolling…
I’ve been trying to put the phone down more and pick up miscellaneous books more. Including the one that resides in the Master Bath. I really like Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s writing. I loved her Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and have been rarely reading What’s in a Phrase? Every time I pick it up,…
I’ve been reading Andrew Murray‘s The New Life as part of the Humble Habits ecourse work. It has been incredibly helpful and encouraging. I ordered it because when I googled ‘conform to Christ’ it came up as one of the top recommendations. I’ve heard of Murray before as solid and worthwhile and Mystie so enjoyed…
Sadly, I don’t even have a quote from Crazy Busy because I’ve been crazy busy. I almost forgot to post the linkup on Wednesday. That would be a travesty, but I didn’t and even though it’s almost 8 pm Eastern, I hope you’ll still link your posts. Love y’all. ‘);
From Susan Hill’s Jacob’s Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading. I so enjoyed her Howard’s End is on the Landing a few years’ ago at Cindy Rollins’ recommendation. I really enjoy reading about readers and their reading. This book has caught me in fits and starts. In some ways it’s perfect for…
I’m reading Beauty in the Word with a group of Reformed friends on Voxer. It’s an interesting dynamic as Caldecott, Beauty’s author, is stridently Roman Catholic and we find places of both profound agreement and disagreement (and, let’s be honest, confusion). There is much to love about the book, I find I’m marking every page…
“… He is so close to Nature every moment that he has become part of it. He is as honest as Nature itself; and as big and clean and as simple. He has grown, with roots deep in the soil, as naturally as that tree. He can’t be wrong, he doesn’t know HOW to be…
“Young though I am, I’ve been observing these three blowhards closely. I am “man”—which is to say, servant—to all three of them. Yet not one among them, if all three were to wait on me, could be my “man,” because three such fakes don’t amount to a man. Take Bardolph: he is cowardly and blustery….
My pastor has been preaching through Philippians and he preached on Phil 4:6-7 this past Sunday. In particular, he focused on the part of the passage “the peace that passes understanding.” It was a fantastic sermon, exactly on some of the things I’ve been considering this year with }pacify{ and some needed correction to my…