There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
J.R.R. TOlkien
Things worth remembering
- joining a new Bible study
- blood sausage conversations
- live music and sunlight
- the bonfire and the northern lights
- all. the. stairs.
- creating a fake crime scene for a Sunday school lesson
- leading worship with a friend
- prayers answered and prayers refined
Let us move in the common affairs of life with studied holiness, diligence, kindness, and integrity.
Charles spurgeon
What I’ve been reading
Cathedral – Maya Joelle
You are worthless, and yet you deserve so much more than you are given. I tear you apart with contradiction.
This book has become my go-to collection of poetry for autumn, and I’m savoring it. It really is a gem.
50 People Every Christian Should Know – Warren W. Wiersbe
“Life is the only cure for death, not the prescriptions of duty, not the threats of punishment and damnation, not the arts and refinement of education, but new, spiritual, Divine Life.” – Christmas Evans
This is essentially a collection of mini biographies, and what a joy it’s been! Learning about the lives, ministries and habits of such giants of the faith has been refreshing and a challenge for me in the way I live my life.
These High, Green Hills – Jan Karon
“You didn’ say nothin’ to th’ Lord ’bout my beans,” Louella reminded him.
“I didn’t?”
“Jus’ th’ cornbread,” she said darkly.
Yes, another Mitford book! It’s just as cozy and humorous as I was expecting.
Frost Light – Danielle Bullen
“We all think that we are so brave, so selfless lifting these things that we are too selfish to see don’t even need to be carried alone.”
Still enjoying this one!
True humility is when you are so focused on God that your self-focus becomes secondary. You are so devoted to His cause that You are able to fully rest in His gentle care without a thought for how things will play out.
Jessie Anderson
From the journal
Cleanse, Father. Heal. Do all that must be done to make me the truest reflection of Your heart that I can be.
…it’s been so good for me to hear the stories of relatively short lives that left a deep impact on the church, not because of their scrambling to be all and do all at once, but because they delighted in the presence and work of God and framed their life around it.
Struck again in Matthew 1 by the value of upright men quietly walking difficult paths in obedience to the Lord.
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Laurel Luehmann 