Welcome to Litsy!

1. Hiking, walking on the beach, huggling my (big, adult-sized) kiddos, listening to the birds.

2. Tagged.

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

More a memoir than an instruction manual, but a heartening and inspiring book for our times. #BeBrave Thanks for coming along for the ride @kspenmoll @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk

The Abbey, by James Martin(2015)

Premise: Two suburbanites are drawn into the life of a local monastery.

Review: A good effort at fiction by a popular nonfiction writer, but this probably should have stayed a nonfiction ‘monasticism for dummies‘ book.
Cont.

We often don‘t know we have wings until we are forced to fly.
How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Buddy

Ir's my Litsyversary! Can't believe it's been seven years. Thanks everyone for making this community the best! Love you'll! XOXO
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How‘s everyone doing with this? I‘m six chapters in, and I think the title might have been more accurate if it were Learning to Be Brave. I‘m enjoying reading about Bishop Budde‘s journey, but I was hoping for more practical advice, I guess. Thoughts? #BeBrave @kspenmoll @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk

For everything you criticize, I challenge you to offer at least one suggestion for making it better.”
#BeBrave @kspenmoll @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk

I‘ve read the intro and first two chapters already, so I am not going to be able to stretch this out over the 40 days of Lent. 🙂 Thurman is an author/theologian I have read, but Buddy is adding to my list with other quotes and references, so I still think it a good Lenten choice. The above quote succinctly expresses my frustration with the “Christian” Right and its co-opting of Jesus. Any thoughts yet? @kspenmoll @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 I became interested in Bishop Budde‘s work after her comments during the ceremony at her church after the inauguration. There are some calming words of wisdom, but I also found it a bit uneven, with a lot of focus on her specific career ups and downs in the middle. I did think it finished a little stronger. A bit of a softer pick than I expected it to be.

Repost for @Lcsmcat

My Lenten discipline this year involves reading this book. Would anyone like to join me in a very unstructured buddy read? Let @Lcsmcat know and she‘ll tag you in her posts. #BeBrave