This book is so over my head. It lays into me early and often. I've always thought, "God should not reward my weak faith because it would never grow." Yet my faith never grows I am just as far from grasping this book as I was when I first looked into it. Reading it in the woods was my big chance.
"The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic Gods giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves."
- Saint Nicholas
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pickReluctant Saint, by Donald Spoto (2002)
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Premise: A faithful yet demythologizing account of the life of St. Francis of Assisi
Review: While this biography is a bit long in the tooth now, it absolutely holds up. So much of what has been written about St. Francis is caught up in one myth-making venture or another. ⬇️
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#pumpkin #saints #fireside #bounty
Day 6- pumpkin on my work desk
Day 8- book I have read on Saints
Day 9- FDR started his radio “ fireside chats” in 1933
Day 10- my husband has been cooking a bounty of meals from his Burmese cookbook. He visited there in 1980s & could not have any evidence on him that stated or inferred he was a journalist or he would have been arrested.
#Saints #ARichLife
The route to this prompt is circuitous. This is a view from our apartment when we first moved to Salt Lake City in 2008, while I was reading Wallace Stegner's The Gathering of Zion about the founding of the LDS church and the Latter-day Saints' journey(s) to what would become Utah. I was not yet in my "photographing reads" era, but I associate this view with the book and with the term "saints."
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