Hello, friends!
There’s not much to say to introduce this post, so I’ll stop trying to make an introduction and just get started.:)
God has no problems – just plans!
corrie ten boom
Things worth remembering…
- my car’s first flat tire
- demolition and cleanup adventures with the parents and sisters
- spending a weekend with a friend
- discovering the most amusing inscription I’ve ever seen inside an old book
- spending time on the road with my brothers
- picking up crocheting again
- drinking coffee at 11 pm for a good cause and only half regretting it
- seeing Annie for the first time on stage
- raking cornstalks
- trying my hand at more creative photo editing
- attempting to shop on Thanksgiving day and finding that it couldn’t be done
- a Walmart run with cousins
- turning our uncle into a meme (several memes, actually) with aforementioned cousins
- feeling like a new woman after the shop crew spiffed up the tractor I use
“In dark and loneliness they are strongest; they will not openly attack a house where there are lights and many people – not until they are desperate…”
aragorn in “THe fellowship of the ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien
What I’ve been reading…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
I think I need to stop ingesting the more intellectually/morally difficult books in audiobook form because I can’t process them as thoroughly as I can when I’m actually reading. It’s definitely a dark book, but I came away from it with a good and sobering reminder of the pervasive nature of sin…moral compromise isn’t a good idea, folks!
Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne
Pooh, who now knew what an Ambush was, said that a gorse-bush had sprung at him suddenly one day when he fell off a tree, and he had taken six days to get all the prickles out of himself.
“We are not talking about gorse-bushes,” said Owl a little crossly.
“I am,” said Pooh.
Sometimes you just need an easy yet quality read that will make you laugh. This book does so nicely.
In My Father’s House: The Years Before The Hiding Place – Corrie ten Boom
Many lonesome people found a place with us, where there was music, humor, interesting conversations, and always room for one more at the oval dinner table. Oh, it’s true, the soup may have been a bit watery when too many unexpected guests came, but it didn’t really matter.
This is a reread! The manner in which this book is written is such a blessing: Corrie shares some of her family’s history, and often shares immediately afterwards about how that event or habit prepared them for the future that only God could see.
And I said, “This is my anguish; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Psalm 77:10
From the journal…
Life is far too fragile and precious to be lived haphazardly.
Lord, You satisfy me. You are enough even when my flesh begs for more…in my weakness You truly are strong.
May you know that you are small and fit well in the hands of God.
sarah Sparks
And that’s a wrap! What memories/lessons are you taking away from this November?
Stay the course!
<3 Laurel
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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