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Jo Ann is Currently Reading

Jo Ann is currently reading

The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

bookshelves: 2021, spiritual-formation, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in June 2021

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Jo Ann said: " ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I read this slowly, like a slow-drip IV. One of the most honest struggles with pain, anguish, depression I have ever read and yet, filled with hope and encouragement. "

Jun 12, 2021 02:57AM · see review

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The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)

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May 09, 2026 09:13PM

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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver

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Jo Ann’s Notes & Highlights

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

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And looking back, all would have said — in praise of that old Portuguese man with the lilt in his voice and the hint of a smile constantly on his lips — “our hearts,” to use the preacher’s words, “our hearts burned within us.”

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Jo Ann’s Quotes

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

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“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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“Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: inspirational, reason, sorrow, trial

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“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

tags: beauty, courage, fear

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