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Barb Terpstra
http://www.babsbonmots.blogspot.com
If understood, believed, and lived out, God’s plan would naturally place Christians at the epicenter of their communities, like hope magnets, like soft places to fall, like living sanctuaries.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
“I have remembered this episode for a long time because it so clearly illustrates the confusion we are in. We think of sin as a series of misdeeds, but in Biblical theology it is a condition.”
― Help My Unbelief
― Help My Unbelief
“Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.”
― The Singer Trilogy
― The Singer Trilogy
“The kitchen has become a place for nurturing souls as well as coaxing good meals into being. Cooking also serves as a living metaphor, for beauty and delight does not appear in a vacuum of a perfectly ordered and clean life, or kitchen. It takes a lot of messes, small and large, to create a life — and a feast — worth its weight in goodness.”
― We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook: A Mom and Daughter Dish about the Food That Delights Them and the Love That Binds Them
― We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook: A Mom and Daughter Dish about the Food That Delights Them and the Love That Binds Them
Q&A with Nafisa Haji, author of The Writing on My Forehead
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Join me for a discussion of my novel The Writing on My Forehead , which is being released in paperback in March. The Q&A will start on Monday, Marc ...more
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