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Barb Terpstra
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I now knew the secret of color. It was a gift for us, like God kissing us on the forehead, because he not only made the world in colors, but he also designed our eyes to see those colors. I now knew why God had made us in such ordinary
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“To God obscenity is not uncovered flesh. It is exposed intention. Nakedness is just a state of heart.”
― The Singer Trilogy
― The Singer Trilogy
“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”
― Unravel Me
― Unravel Me
“The difference between
religion and the gospel is that God has said no to everybody, so that no one can boast before God.”
― Help My Unbelief
religion and the gospel is that God has said no to everybody, so that no one can boast before God.”
― Help My Unbelief
“So you see, Jesus is on both sides. He is on the side of the victims, and he is also on the side of the perpetrators. That is why the Christian gospel is so radical. It is radically inclusive in ways that the politically correct crowd doesn't dream of. The gospel refuses to divide the world up into the correct and the incorrect, the righteous and the unrighteous, the innocent and the guilty. Jesus takes all that into himself.”
― Help My Unbelief
― Help My Unbelief
“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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