I love travel writing, especially with a good mix of history and humor. Few writers do this as well as Bill Bryson does. Here is an excerpt from “In a Sunburned Country”.
Every cultural instinct and previous experience tells you that when you travel this far you should find, at the very least, people on camels. [...]
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Bill Bryson on Australia
Posted in Ponder this..., Verse for the Week on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
from “Stepping Heavenward”
Posted in Ponder this..., Verse for the Week, tagged Elizabeth Elliot, Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Stepping Heavenward” is one of my very favorite books, which I first heard on the radio, being read by one of my very favorite authors, Elisabeth Elliott.
“It is a marvel to me why God allows characters like mine to defile His Church. I can only account for it with the thought that if I ever [...]
On our right to rights
Posted in Verse for the Week on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It empasizes honor, not equality. A Christian’s concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.”
Elisbeth Elliott
Go R.A.P somebody
Posted in Ponder this..., Verse for the Week on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I wrote, by hand, thank you notes for Christmas presents received and it was a big hit! I received so much feedback, you’d think I’d baked a batch of cookies–with that cookie smell wafting throughout the house.
Here are some of the thoughts on being grateful/thankful that prompted me handwrite real [...]
open mind
Posted in Ponder this..., Verse for the Week on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I liked this quote someone sent me:
“Don’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out!”
That rascal, Pascal and his wager, verse for July 25th
Posted in Verse for the Week on July 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Blaise Pascal was a gambling man, and a brilliant mathematician, and he thought he could figure out a way to win with the dice more often. Thus, the theory of probibility was hatched.
Pascal also struggled with the question; is there a God? Always calculating his odds, the answer came to be known as “Pascal’s Wager”.
“If [...]
verse for July 16th, 2006
Posted in Verse for the Week on July 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It should not surprise us that creativity arises out of the pit of life rather than the high places. For creativity is the ability to put old material into new form. And it is only when old molds and old ways of doing things are forcibly broken up by need or suffering, compelling [...]
Where is the Beauty and the Truth we seek? (Shelley)
Posted in Ponder this..., Verse for the Week on July 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Life is a journey of the heart that requires the mind–not the other way around. The church sometimes gets this backward and makes knowing the right things the center of life.
It’s not; the heart is the center of life.
Desire is always where the action is.
Amen to that.
many thanks to John Eldredge from the “Journey [...]
verse for the week: June 19, 2006
Posted in Verse for the Week on June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy,
and shall break
In blessing on your head.
“`William Cowper
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