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“Only the most well-behaved boys qualified to be wise men. The shepherds were also expected to meet high standards. For example, any auditionee who used the word ain’t onstage—even once—would be sentenced to the angel choir with Miss Terry, or worse, would be cast as one of the fruits and vegetables. Moab Methodist was the only church that featured fruits and vegetables during the birth of Christ.”


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“There was no explaining mankind’s repulsive taste for Jell-O salads that had become so popular in Moab. Some of these salads were luminous green, with black olives and cocktail onions embedded within the phlegm-like wretchedness.”

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*17 hours into audiobook
“Kids will invest more when they feel they’re being invested in”

“There are many things I will never be able to buy my children, but because we have a library card there is nothing they can’t have. They can travel anywhere, learn anything, meet anyone, and ultimately become whatever they dream to be because we have this card that gives us access to a world of books.”

“Neither poverty nor a thousand misfortunes should deprive any child of a book, because books DO change lives.”

“Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.”

Abandoning for now.

Abandoning for now.

"The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility."

Ch 7. I'm amazed at his description of the American church and how it seems like, overall it's spot on. For many churches, the priority is social things and maybe helping people, rather than the true message of Jesus.

Reading about her faith in the midst of so many things is so inspiring!

Gosh! Picked it up because it's a Ted Dekker book, but it's so not his usual kind of story and it feels really, really dark. Not sure if I even want to know where it's going, but feel like I should finish it because it's an author I usually like.

Not sure where this is going except I'm fairly certain this book is going to make me cry.

I'm enjoying all the references to a wrinkle in time in this book. :)