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December 18, 2017
Monday, December 18, 2017
. . . find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. ~ John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life It used to be an annual tradition: a post listing the books I had read over the course of the past
December 17, 2017
Sunday, December 17, 2017
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.” ~ Stephen R. Covey I’ve been reading my 2011 blog book,
December 16, 2017
Saturday, December 16, 2017
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~ Theodor Seuss Geisel (also known as Dr. Seuss) It’s later than we think. So we should think. When I think about
December 15, 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft feet over a first thin fall of powdery snow. Little was visible but squares of a dusky orange-red on either side of the street, where the firelight or lamplight of each cottage overflowed through the casements into the
December 14, 2017
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Psalms 25:4 ESV Teach me . . . I wake with a prayer winding its way through my mind. Two simple words, acknowledging the truth that I don’t have all the answers. Humbling. Empowering too, because I can let go of any illusions
December 13, 2017
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. ~ Chaim Potok, The Chosen We’ve been out for hours running errands, shopping, and having lunch out—all good and necessary mid-December activities. At quarter to one I drop Gerry off for
December 12, 2017
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. ~ Plato I went to the Dollar Store yesterday and was reminded, immediately, of the many reasons why I don’t go to the Dollar Store. I haven’t been there since this time last year when I was hunting for a cryptogram puzzle book with my granddaughter.
December 11, 2017
Monday, December 11, 2017
There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading. ~ Alan Clark Except, perhaps, sitting up in bed, drinking strong soy-milk-frothy coffee, and writing: my delicious regular morning ritual. I’m just back from the prairie where I’ve been reimagining something that happened there a lifetime ago, tapping out words
December 10, 2017
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge The sweetest part of this ever-darkening month is found in afternoons and evenings when we read companionably together yet off on individual adventures without and within. It’s made all the more delicious this
I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. ‘We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,” I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. ~ Oliver Herford The other day, around 2:45 in the afternoon, we noticed that it seemed dark and
