A couple of weeks ago, I posted in my Daybook this quote from When You Pray, “We cannot hallow God until God hallows us.” I’ve been reading When You Pray by Philip Graham Ryken for a month or two now and very much enjoying it. I’m finding it very helpful in my own praying of the…
I’m reading Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty by Stephen Turley with a group of Catholic ladies on Voxer. We joke that I’m the token Reformed girl of the group. Anyway, Awakening Wonder is seriously challenging my mental abilities. I read Chapter two three times, the final time I drew Venn diagrams…
I have, perhaps, gushed too much about Sarah Mackenzie’s book Teaching from Rest. I’ve quoted it a number of times: twice before on Wednesdays with Words (To Those Ends, Surrender … Take On), just this past Monday on my Daybook, and you can’t forget Instagram where I snapped a pic of the page I was on…
For Today… Outside my window…. the sun is shining and the temperature is increasing – slightly anyway. I am thinking… about the woman who fears the Lord and seeking and searching the things above. Excellent sermons yesterday. I am thankful… for the faithful exposition of the Word at my church. I am wearing… grey sweatpants…
On Saturday, I published a post about how I see education as a Giant Jigsaw Puzzle. I forgot that just last week, I had read a quote that went perfectly with my post. I found it again Monday night at my CM group meeting where we’re studying using Brandy Vencel’s Start Here as our guide. Brandy…
Last summer, our associate pastor preached through praying the Lord’s Prayer (Here’s the first: Our Father Who is in Heaven). It was revolutionary to my thinking. And my praying. Oh, my prayer life isn’t still what I’d like it to be (is anyone’s ever), but the ideas and actual praying is actually better. I decided…
A year ago, I ran into a quote from John Ruskin in Consider This by Karen Glass. I wrote it in my commonplace book. Today, when I started Awakening Wonder by Stephen Turley, I found the quote again and decided to share it with you. I love the alternating not merely. Education is not merely…
For years and years my favorite Bible verse has been the one in the header to my blog, 2 Samuel 14:14. The verse, in the ESV translation says, “We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he…
I love Christmas carols. I love esoteric, uncommon Christmas Carols. A year ago for WwW, I shared ‘Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming.’ The third verse. I’m glad I checked, because it’s the one I almost shared again. Earlier in this Yuletide Season, I shared my favorite hymn which happens to be an Advent hymn:…