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This first volume of the wonderful Grantchester mysteries, Kindle edition, is an Amazon sale item today!
25 Feb 19

A sudden shaft of welcome, warming sunlight has fallen upon the little band of refugees.

Every time you experience the pain of rejection, absence, or death, you are faced with a choice. You can become bitter and decide not to love again, or you can stand straight in your pain and let the soil on which you stand become richer and more able to give life to new seeds.

Written with a pen dipped in fire...

I know I’ll be giving this one at least four stars.

Wonderful book! At first I wasn’t so sure - but now I’m firmly convinced. This one is a five star book!

This much-applauded recent release (Kindle edition) is available at a huge discount today!
22/2/19

This acclaimed adventure by a GR author is FREE on Amazon today!
22 Feb 19

Excellent, and very useful.

More than the Philokalia or the small brown cross on the whitewashed wall,
The kitchen light switch is the teaching...
One must stand there and slowly turn the switch - round like the sun -
Until a faint hitch in the turning says, NOW, and the light flickers on.
Each moment is like this - a genesis in the Gospel of Gentleness.

‘(Just as I was at my mother’s deathbed) I know we are all toads at times. I know that I know that I know that Jesus died as payment for our toadiness... in spite of me.
But to those of us who’ve been disappointed or wounded, learning to be loved - letting God love us - is a life’s work.’

A very insightful read!

Recently - just a few months ago - I figured out (why my mother didn’t say she loved me before she died). I was riding my bike down the trails behind my house, the ones facing the Rockies. The thought came, bright and clear and unmistakable: Eliza, she didn’t tell you... because you wouldn’t let her. My necessary barriers... had become an impenetrable armour.

This little miracle of a book is going for 99 cents on the Amazon Kindle store today - here in Canada, anyway!
20 Feb 19

An incredibly fine novel!

My mother, Paige, died when I was 35 years old. Way too early for me to have finished processing all her investments in me, the good and the not-so-good.... I was just surviving, and this is the role that fit my personality: take charge and do what’s needed - and deny you have any needs yourself. Be the good one. Codepend: create worth for yourself by intuiting then meeting the needs of everyone else....

Too many mornings, she’s seen me
Splash a scald of it into a travel mug,
Take a gulp, burn my throat -
Living on headlines, crisis by crisis
The daily outrage whose only profit is loss.
With her hand now gentle on my hair,
Smoothing it, she hums, and the humming draws me
Home to local sunlight and a fire of goldfinch
In the forsythia, to the waterfall...

On sale today, on Amazon - Kindle only.
19 Feb 19

Ann Voskamp whacks me upside the head to stop (all my) comparison and competition.... She wrote of those who compare & compete: ‘If your life looks like a mess - to them - they whip out a measuring stick and feel confident of their own worthiness... walk through life with a measuring stick - and your eyes get so small you never see God!’

I’m glad to finally discover the freedom that comes with releasing the mythology that there is such a thing as a perfect family, a perfect way to live, and a perfect life that is blessed. I’ve come to see the beauty of broken. God brings a kind of beauty in my broken that has nothing to do with my obedience or failure but rather with the reality of his presence in all of life.

Says it all.

There is indeed danger. There is a danger that is called delusion. It is unable to check itself. It goes on and on: then it is called perdition. But there is a concerned guide, a knowing one, who attracts the attention of the wanderer, who calls out to him that he should take care. That guide is remorse.

This wonderful runaway bestseller is DRASTICALLY REDUCED on Kindle today.
Sunday, 17 Feb 19

I reach for my list (of horrible things I’ve done), topped by my phone throwing and Halloween egg-chucking and continuing through the years with failure after failure.... I tear it up.... But it’s a new flinging this time: toward freedom.
God heals me whole, as if the evil never occurred.

Another great classic e-book on sale - today only! - on Amazon.

Is it possible that our imagination can lead us to the truth of our lives? Yes, it can! The problem is that we allow our past, which becomes longer and longer each year, to say to us: “You know it all; you have seen it all, be realistic; the future will just be a repeat of the past....”

This e-book is on sale today on Amazon!
14 Feb 19

(I know you, you are the deeply bowed,
I, the transpierced, am subject to you.
Where flames a word, would testify for us both?
You - all, all real. I - all delusion.)