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Heart & Mind: Where Jesus was a good boy and did what his mother told him to do.

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Some thoughts and questions. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Where Jesus was a good boy and did what his mother told him to do. Thoughts on quotes from " Finding God in All Things. An episode on "On Being.". The quote below is several parts of the interview where Fr. Martin talked about "using your imagination to place yourself within a scripture scene and to see what comes up.". What's the boat look like? What do the disciples look like? What's Jesus look like? What do you hear? What are the waves like? Krist...

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Heart & Mind: April 2015

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Some thoughts and questions. Friday, April 3, 2015. Judas, Peter by Luci Shaw. Because we are all. Body and blood and asking. Guilty) is it I and hearing. It would be simple for us all. But if we find grace. To cry and wait. After the voice of morning. Has crowed in our ears. To break our hearts. He will be there. To ask us each again. Do you love me? I read this poem tonight at our Good Friday service. It was a beautiful service, and it's a beautiful poem, too. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: Lila by Marilynne Robinson

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Wednesday, February 04, 2015. Lila by Marilynne Robinson. Loved, loved, loved it. It inspired me to read 2 more of Robinson's books, Home. I'm going to try to write about Gilead. Is set in Gilead, at least the present-day part of it is. Home. Too, is set in the town of Gilead, as is, of course, Gilead. Is the name of, and story of, the woman who becomes the wife of Reverend Ames, the main character in Gilead. Maybe instead of sa...

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: Delicious Sentences

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Friday, July 24, 2015. I have a friend who posted this on Facebook:. She enjoyed registering her fellow citizens' neuroses, intimacies, and habits, plotting them on a scale of decency, and knowledgeably passing on her opinions to others. She was generous in that regard." Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop. I thought about what my friend had written as I was re-reading Jane and Prudence. What are we having for supper? Picture...

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: September 2013

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Monday, September 02, 2013. Food and Friends - A Feast of a Book. I'm reading a book I picked up on sale at a cool bookstore in Santa Cruz. The first time I went there I took a picture of the shelves full of handwritten notes by the staff. Love that. That was when I was on our "Woman Time at the Ocean" weekend. Right now I'm reading one of those books. It's called Food and Friends. See the first letter of the chapter? San Jose C...

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: April 2015

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Saturday, April 18, 2015. Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans. I loved this book! I love Rachel Held Evans. So I had pre-ordered it when Held-Evans announced it was coming. It's full of memorable statements like the one below. The book is divided into 7 sections, for 7 sacraments: Baptism, Confesion, Holy Orders, Communion, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick, and Marriage. This book talks of leaving the evangelical tradit...

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: Scary Close by Donald Miller

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Wednesday, February 04, 2015. Scary Close by Donald Miller. I pre-ordered this book when I read about it coming out. Partly I pre-ordered it because I read Blue Like Jazz. By Donald Miller but also because if you pre-ordered it you got two freebies with it, the ebook of Blue Like Jazz. This book fed right into this line of thinking. Miller wrote about the process of changing himself while falling in love with his now wife, B...

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: July 2015

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Friday, July 24, 2015. I have a friend who posted this on Facebook:. She enjoyed registering her fellow citizens' neuroses, intimacies, and habits, plotting them on a scale of decency, and knowledgeably passing on her opinions to others. She was generous in that regard." Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop. I thought about what my friend had written as I was re-reading Jane and Prudence. What are we having for supper?

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: February 2015

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Friday, February 20, 2015. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. Can you imagine this woman, Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, is the first person featured in this history of technology - the internet and computers? I read about Lord Byron in the Georgette Heyer Regency novels that I love. He was a famous, romantic novelist. In this book, The Innovators. I was also surprised by the women featured in the book, who were integ...

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It: May 2015

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Mavis Reads and Writes to Tell About It. A blog about the books I'm reading. Friday, May 29, 2015. It's turned out to be quite a long time since I've read a novel (a new one; I've been doing a lot of re-reading lately). I kind of forgot how fun it is to read a really good story, and just enjoy the story. Yesterday I finished A Dangerous Place. By Jacqueline Winspear, the latest of the "Maisie Dobbs" novels she writes. It was great, as have been all the others. Today I started reading The Bartender's Tale.