pick4 ⭐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!”
pickI 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?
Ashley has just moved into a new home where she and her mother rent the top floor from a crotchety old lady. Ashley ends up finding an antique, worn doll buried in the backyard, and comes to discover its owner, a young girl dying of tuberculosis, after a ghost cat named #snowball leads her through a hedge into the past. Sounds like a wild ride, yes? I was thrilled to rediscover this one after falling in love with it as a child. #winterwonderland
#WinterWonderland #Snowball
Can‘t beat Enid Blyton.
#winterwonderland #snowball
I don't read much on my kindle but here is a book of short stories i enjoyed although only one story features life on the ada doom farm and from recollection only one other was a Christmas tale. Still the cover picture is apt with a young child rolloing a snowball.. Im tempted to reread cold comfort farm soon.
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