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But if the process of discernment has taught me anything, it’s that there is almost always no once and for all. There’s only for now. As much as I sometimes yearn for the certainty of roots, I’m beginning to rest in the truth that roots are
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“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“You have everybody dearest to you always at hand; I, probably, never shall again; and therefore, till I have outlived all my affections, a post office, I think, must always have power to draw me out in worse weather than today.”
― Emma
― Emma
“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
Joy Stark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joy Stark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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546 books
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613 books
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216 books
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526 books
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639 books
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Religion, and Young-adult
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