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12 years ago @ http://www.homewithpur... - What's On My Nightstan... · 1 reply · +1 points

Such fun to be reading with your children! Three Decades of Fertility intrigues me--I'm a little curious as to who is supposed to be it's target audience though. Is it intended for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant in their forties?

12 years ago @ http://jaynesbooks.blo... - What\'s On Your Nights... · 1 reply · +1 points

Congratulations on finishing Crime and Punishment. My husband loves Dostoevsky, but that's the only of his works I've read. I keep telling myself I'll get to some other of his writings--and that I'll read some more Russian novels in general--but I still haven't gotten to them. Sigh.

12 years ago @ Lisa notes... - What’s on your n... · 1 reply · +1 points

Right now, with my current reading slump, your list looks overwhelming to me. So many books on there I'd like to read, so difficult to figure out where to begin. So, I suppose I'll just mention the non-Christian one :-) The Invisible Gorilla sounds like fun.

13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - What’s on your n... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Death of the Custodian: The Case of the Missing Tutor sounds great. I might have to figure out if I can read it somehow (I will NOT be reading it on the computer--computer reading does stuff to my eyes--so much so that I'm using my Kindle for blog reading more and more.)

I had planned on participating in Challies' club this time around, but when push came to shove, I've been too busy to write focused posts--and I've found that I've need the intentionality of my Thankful Thursday (as busy as I've been, my tendency is to complain rather than to worship--but I've so much to worship God FOR, I simply MUST take the time to do so.)
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - “Heaven help me&... · 0 replies · +1 points

"Lord, help me." Sometimes that is the most profound prayer.

I have a resident who has a vocabulary of seven words. Six of the seven are "God, I can't do it anymore."

I was contemplating just this past week as I listened to her, how important it is for each of us to come to the place that this simple-minded woman is at--realizing that we are incapable, utterly at a loss, completely dependent on God's grace.
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - What’s on your n... · 1 reply · +1 points

"...we sing about 'amazing grace' and speak of 'amazing grace,' but far too often it has ceased to amaze us. Sadly, we might more truthfully sing of 'accustomed grace.'"

So very true and challenging. Reminds me of the importance of stopping to simply meditate on God's grace, to revel in it, to enjoy it--instead of just moving on to the next thing.

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13 years ago @ http://jaynesbooks.blo... - What\'s On Your Nights... · 1 reply · +1 points

You definitely had a varied list this month. My hometown read Devil in the White City a few years back for our "One Book-One Lincoln" campaign--and I made the mistake of reading some of the creepy H.H. Holmes parts late at night. Yikes! Like you, I enjoyed most of the book but thought the architectural descriptions were a little...much.

13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Turn back or go forward? · 0 replies · +1 points

I could definitely use a good whack with an onion (especially after seeing pictures of the house my friend just bought. And he's only 22-SO not fair. But God is good and He brought me here for a good purpose.)

13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Turn back or go forward? · 2 replies · +1 points

I'm tempted to want to go back pretty frequently. Back to my idyllic homeschool childhood (where I could read practically 24-7). Back to the relatively responsibility-free college years (where I could switch activities almost whenever I wanted-instead of having to work straight through for eight or nine hours a day). Back, back, back. I am a discontented soul.

Last week, while finalizing my Haggadah for Passover this weekend, I found this interesting bit on Wikipedia: "Jews in Afghanistan and Iran hit each other over the head with green onions during the [Dayenu] refrain... This may be due to a passage in Numbers 11:5-6, where the Israelites see manna and recall Egypt. 'We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic. Now our gullets are shriveled. There is nothing at all. Nothing but this manna to look at.' It is thought that by beating each other with the onions they taught themselves not to yearn for Egypt or to forget Egyptian Bondage."

Sometimes I need someone to bash me over the head with a green onion to remind me of God's goodness in every stage of my life--and His continued goodness in bringing me to where He has me now.
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - What’s on your n... · 0 replies · +1 points

I pretty much want to read everything on your list this month--although I'm planning on holding out on Hunger Games until the movie stuff dies down (Although I might ask: Will it die down or will a series of rapid-succession-sequels keep it in the public eye?)

Someday I'm going to have to read Phantom of the Opera again and see if I can tell why you didn't give it the rave reviews I did when I first read it. I read it one summer while I was in college, told my little brother--a reluctant reader at that time--about it, and promptly re-read the whole thing with him. We read it out loud, passing the novel back and forth between us--and finished it in two days. After years of trying to convince Timothy to read, I finally found a book that hooked him. At the end of our reading, Timothy told me "I don't know what to do about Eric. I love him--and I hate him." That review, from a teenaged reluctant-reading boy, convinced me that Leroux was a genius. Like I said, I'll have to re-read it sometime.
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