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Ellen Bert
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So many good biblical references woven into this story, layered on top of each other - Abraham in his old age; Isaac and Ishmael; the prodigal son; many I’m certainly missing. So many paragraphs underlined, margins filled with pen ink. I can only read 20 pages at a time but they make me think more than the last 6 months of reading I did this year.
— Dec 29, 2024 09:17PM
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Ellen Bert
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“So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for. If I could only give you what my father gave me. No, what the Lord has given me and must also give you. But I hope you will put yourself in the way of the gift.”
— Dec 29, 2024 07:54PM
Ellen Bert
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Shares a kinship with Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger, and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Direct but conversational, at once purposeful and meandering. Grave, reflective, hopeful. Maybe some Mary Oliver in there too. I like it but a reading it very slowly, to savor.
— Dec 28, 2024 09:26PM
