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Bible 101
I’m taking a break from From God To Us. It’s full of knowledge I want, but it’s a little dry. I’m about halfway through it, and I’m going to set it aside for…
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Rabbit Hill
Back in May when I was raking dead leaves off my flower garden, I uncovered a nest of baby rabbits. There was brief chaos: I wondered if I’d stepped on them or hurt…
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Diary of an Old Soul
I’ve been revisiting George MacDonald lately. I knew him first as the one whose Phantastes C.S. Lewis credited with “baptizing his imagination.” Then I explored some of his children’s books, and more recently…
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Reflections on the Psalms
I have to be honest: the book of Psalms has never been a favorite of mine. It’s been praised so often by others that I’m quite willing to accept that the fault is…
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The Wheel on the School
At last, we’ve finished The Wheel on the School. The chapters are longer than we’ve typically tackled in a read-aloud: 20-25 pages or so. This means bedtimes have slid a bit later, and…
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Wide Sargasso Sea
I was making supper one night last week when I heard a review of this novel on NPR. I’m not sure how I could have missed Wide Sargasso Sea till now. Written by…
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A story of courage
What would you do if your toddler stopped talking expressively, and began echoing your words? Or if he spent hours arranging his toys into intricate patterns only to stare at them? Or if…
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Routine Exercise vs. Real Desire
My Bible-reading has been progressing slowly through the Old Testament. It’s taken me about two years, but I’m at last up to Haggai, so it’s safe to say the end is in sight.…
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Reading matters
I’ve often wondered how much money we save by using the library so much. Apparently, its value to us is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000.00 a month! Of course we’d never spend…