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This prose !!!!!

Rainy szn is here. It’s Harry time.

“From the time [Jesus nursed at Mary’s breast] until he was grown, her hands held him; her arms enveloped him; her lap gave him a place to rest. God’s choice to allow the body of a woman, even the most intimate parts of herself, to come into direct contact with the body and blood of the Son stands against any who would deny women, by virtue of the fact that they are women, access to the holy.”

At this point I have simply turned off my heart so it cannot be emotionally obliterated by this book

(My favorite kind of book)

“When we are young we find beauty in easy-to-appreciate human forms. As we grow older and learn more, we journey closer to the truth of beauty; we begin to perceive it more powerfully in minds than in bodies.”

“I try to take the Incarnation seriously; by that I mean I look to the local, the particular, the specific, to determine how to express my Christian faith.”

Furiously listening to Dickens is the only way to cope with Rachel being in Oxford without me

My sense of humor could be described as “minor Dickens characters”