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“God is the most obvious thing in the world. He is absolutely self-evident…we are like birds flying in quest of the air, or men with lighted candles searching through the darkness for fire.”

Freaking Jayber

“So it is that the life force may take possession of a man—so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.”

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The themes of both water and home intertwined throughout literature. Reminds me of baptism. It’s like God knew what he was doing, or authors such as Berry and Robinson and Dillard etc picked up on something innate in us. Water signifies a coming home.

Jayber Crow is seeping in theology. I’m stopping every other sentence with thoughts I can’t quite form!

5th grade lesson #1: sometimes it’s when it’s raining that we have the greatest adventures.

Stalk muskrats and the Spirit. Catch a glimpse, your face just might shine. Revelation and self-forgetfulness as we wait, stalk, haunt the woods and the world. I never want this book to end, I've become attached to a woman and her work.

Love is dangerous, and painful. But it’s also warm—like Christmas, or family. Is knowing pain worth knowing love? Is being free more valuable than being safe?

It also sounds like Hinds Feet- “Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.”

But really, it’s all just words that gesture towards the Cross—love & pain.

"The terms are clear : if you want to live, you have to die; you cannot have mountains and creeks without space, and space is beauty married to a blind man. The blind man is Freedom, or Time, and he does not go anywhere without his great dog Death."

"Intricacy" may be one of my favorite chapters I've ever read, but following right after, "Fecundity" was a little sickening.

A middle school boy told me today he hated reading, but this book has him hooked. He stayed up past his bed time reading the outsiders. Stay gold Kam.

6th grade just flipped out at the naked old woman

Slowlyyy but surely- I don’t want it to ever end I don’t think

Reading up to the last few chapters for class, maybe I’ll finish the rest this summer

Reading up to the last few chapters for class, maybe I’ll finish the rest this summer

Real good textual study. Can’t wait to meet Ed.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed- because ‘Thou mayest.’”