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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

Book cover for Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard

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Our life and how we find the world now and in the future is, almost totally, a simple result of what we have become in the depths of our being—in our spirit, will, or heart. From there we see our world and interpret reality.

Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Jo Ann’s Quotes

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

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“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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“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

tags: advice-for-daily-living

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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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