Category Archives: The Bookshelf

It’s no secret that I love quotes, so come bury your nose in my books of quotes… posts that have been inspired by the Wonderful Words of Life or the words of others.

Book Review: Finding the Way Home

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A friend recently gave me a new book to read and asked if I would consider reviewing it on my blog. Her mother wrote it. I said, “Yes,” but hesitantly, because, well, you know, what if I didn’t like it? What would I say? What would I do?

So I read it. In 2 days.

It grabbed me.

(Then I re-read it so I could write more in depth about it.)

Written by Sarah Byrd, and set in beautiful Cornwall, England, Finding the Way Home is a book about relationships, journeys, and how we all struggle to find peace and love in our lives.  Read more... (454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sunday Selections: “Describing the Indescribable”

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A friend recently sent me a link to an article called Describing the Indescribable. (The poem is a link within a link, so be sure to read the article, then download the poem.)

It’s a wonderful piece written by Dr. David P. Murray, and it describes the darkness of depression and the way it immobilizes you, but it describes the joy that comes with freedom from depression, too. Being a melancholy, I’ve always had a pessimistic and sadder bent to my life, feeling everything deeply. But I had never experienced a darkness so profound as I did recently when I underwent test upon test upon test exacerbating fear upon fear upon fear. Going off my life-giving thyroid medication (a necessary part of the testing) impacts emotional centers, and the depression that came over me made even breathing difficult at times.  Read more... (233 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)

Sunday Selections: We Shall Get In

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God has given us the Morning Star already:
you can go and enjoy the gift on many fine mornings if you get up early enough.

What more, you may ask, do we want?
Ah, but we want so much more –
something the books on aesthetics take little notice of.
But the poets and the mythologies know all about it.
We do not want merely to see beauty,
though, God knows, even that is bounty enough.
We want something else which can hardly be put into words –
to be united with the beauty we see,
to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves,
to bathe in it, to become part of it.  Read more... (335 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

What if…?

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What if you slept?
And what if in your sleep you dreamed?
And what if in your dream, you went
to Heaven and there plucked a strange
and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you woke, you
had the flower in your hand?
Ah! What then?

(~Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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I am so very, very blessed!
I am here. I am with them.
I could not ask for more.

Moonless Seas

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“All along, let us remember,
we are not asked to understand,
but simply to obey…
‘And only Heaven is better
than to walk with Christ at midnight,
over moonless seas–’
I couldn’t feel frightened then.
Praise Him for the moonless seas–
all the better the opportunity
for proving Him to be indeed the El Shaddai,
‘the God who is Enough.’”
(~Amy Carmichael)
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