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Michelle Ruetschle

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For if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 8:25

Dear friends,

What a year we have had! Over the summer, we left our deeply rooted life in the Philippines to begin an entirely new chapter in Portland, Oregon. As I write, a fire is going in the fireplace, and the air outside is chill. An enormous fir tree, freshly cut, towers over our living room, and as I l Read more of this blog post »

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Forty: The Year My Husband Became a Quadriplegic

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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

by M. Scott Peck

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Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

by Jacques Philippe

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“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”
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