“The best snow is the snow that comes softly in the night, like a shy friend afraid to knock.”
#Snowball
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“The best snow is the snow that comes softly in the night, like a shy friend afraid to knock.”
#Snowball
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

4 ⭐I am amazingly surprised. I was expecting not to like this book because I do not like the front cover. The front cover seems old and dated and like something I would see in my childhood 20 years ago. However, the pages on the inside are beautifully illustrated and they work with the story and its rhymes well. It has a cadence and sometimes the cadence is a little sharp but altogether it works. The story is memorable and cute.

“Very little time in a priest‘s life is spent on ‘holy‘ things. Most of it is conflict management and resolution.”
Or, as a woman priest said in a sermon on ordination, “There are times when the church is like a swimming pool: all the noise comes from the shallow end.”
😂🤣😭
My church is in the middle of a pastoral transition, and I can‘t tell you how true this is right now. I texted this pic to my former pastor and her response was “Spot on!”

I bought this faded copy of Practicing Resurrection from the outdoor shelves at Bart‘s Books in Ojai either on my honeymoon or a year later on our first anniversary—nearly 10 years ago. It was fascinating to read it now and see connections that have emerged in the intervening years that made it far more meaningful now than it would have been if I‘d read it back when I originally bought it. It‘s a quiet reflective book, focusing on Gallagher‘s ⤵️

“Yesterday he was snowballing the Snow Man in the garden and pushed him over the edge of the cliff so that he fell into my sleigh at the bottom and broke lots of things—one of them was himself. I used some of what was left of him to paint my white picture. We shall have to make ourselves a new gardener when we are less busy” #winterwonderland #snowball

#winterwonderland #snowball
Listened to Jenny discuss this book on her podcast @ReadingEnvy and it sounded perfect for my Dad. (Also for me after he‘s read it 😂😂) So onto Book Depository I go. However there‘s a #snowball in hell‘s chance of it getting here for Christmas. ⛄️❄️🌫 Early birthday present shopping then!
PS is everybody else getting dozens and dozens of new followers? Somebody mentioned there‘s suggestions now of who to follow?