Friday, September 28, 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
On the edge of a mountain
Brosephs in front of the Great Hall.
The journey begins for Alex.
The sun sets as we near home.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Good eats
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| Masterful Sourdough Loaves from Baker Ben |
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| Dreamy Spinach Salad with Dijon Balsamic vinaigrette |
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| Crunchy on the outside, perfection on the inside |
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| Yogurt raisins looking oh, so photogenic |
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Survive Your Future - Books that overcome
A vibrant Christian recounts her horrific life without self-pity or victimhood. As the Lord breathed life into her dying body, Jesus reshapes her life through scars of pain very few will ever endure, and she becomes a spirit-filled, hope-giving, restored beauty. One of the best books I read in 2018.
A man loses his entire family in a flash flood, but what he doesn't lose is his memories and the time he invested in them while they lived. This book treasures the relationships of a family and reminds us to seize the moments we are given.
Jonah 2:8 Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.
How often we live powerless lives because we worship powerless gods. This very readable book desires to topple every believer's counterfeit idols that wish to destroy and distort good things into ultimate things. I don't want to miss out on the soul-satisfying Jesus.
I have read many Cambodian survival stories, but this one stands out at the gradual and tender revelation of Jesus in a new believer's life. The events in the book are atrociously slow-moving, and yet you can see Jesus' faithful presence granting mercy for the next hour's troubles and the following day's threats and the hard months that turned into heart-aching years.
This true-crime story is full of bizarre twists against a pastor called to love people as he preached the Word of God in a sleepy, little, no-name place in America. Resolved to stay in a town where their house was bombed repeatedly and death threats were regular occurrences, the mother is gunned down by a man they befriended, and yet truly murdered by another. The author, as the daughter of the pastor, is still coming to grips with that a life given over to Jesus is never cut short.
What if you were gone for 7 1/2 years as a POW in North Vietnam? If you ever wondered how you would spend your time, this book is for you. Consider how grueling the uncertainty of your loved one's fate for the wife and family back home. Though I've read very similar accounts before, the strength of this book was in its final chapters as the book reminded me that an unwritten story perhaps harder for being mostly unrecognized and highly anticipated would be the reuniting of a family after such vastly different experiences in those 7 1/2 years.
With picturesque writing and stimulating intelligence, the ordinary events of this book are compelling and anything but commonplace. It is a rich spiritual jewel of God's character and pursuit of a lost husband and wife. God's calling is unmistakable in their well-travelled lives. Meeting with so many world-changing individuals definitely shaped their belief in God who threads our sorrows, pains, and limitations into a beautiful finished work.
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