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“HEY! Unto you a child is born!!”

“As far as I’m concerned, Mary is always going to look sort of nervous and bewildered, but ready to clobber anyone who laid a hand on her baby. And the Wise Men are always going to be Leroy and his brothers, bearing ham.”

A Christmas read aloud with my girls

Hey! Caleb!

Staves, quarters, & chirps…please, this man—

For whom the bell tolls

Come in and know me better, man!

I swear I’ve read an excerpt of this before…

Absolutely am rotting away on the Libby waitlist 3 separate times now…

It matters greatly what kind of stories we live with.

I specifically saved this book for the season of All Hallow’s Eve, and I am pleased as punch that I did

Oh

This book beginning with “it was the middle of an autumn downpour” bodes well for October

Kerygma-the preaching or proclamation of the Christian gospel

Our picture will always be partial…[because of] independent development and differing situations, churches diverged widely in their perspectives on essential elements of Christian belief and practice. Early Christians proposed and experimented with competing visions of ideal community…all of the elements we might consider to be essential to define Christianity did not yet exist…History is written by the winners

“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But, a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what only lives for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment…Life’s bounty is in its flow.”

It’s weird that ‘Dedicated’ feels liked the discount version of ‘Four-Thousand Weeks’, but ‘Dedicated’ was published first, yet both books were published within 3 months of one another, & the subject matter is the same. Prophetic?

“Commitments are relationships, and relationships are like living things…When the life has gone out of a commitment, it’s no longer a relationship—it’s a dead rule.”

“Family aren’t just the people we are born into. Family are also those we find in life, and those who find us. And sometimes, those bonds can be even stronger, more enduring, because they’re made by choice…There’s nothing more precious than a bond created from your own free will.“

“But trying to convince yourself you didn’t want something that you so desperately needed felt like living with two people inside her head.”

Because here, her mom was eternal

These chapter headings make my heart palpitate 😍

Homegirl is able to successfully runaway bride in a kimono & geta against, at the very least, her magically ki enhanced fiancé? And then also has time to shed the entire kimono in one fluttering swoop? Okay…

My son throwing down a thumbs up in Japanese occupied Korea snitched me right out of the perceived timeline

If only all books could be this gorgeous 😍😍😍

Genuinely one of—if not the—best I’ve ever seen

“To be honest, I was thinking I should knock off the watermelon myself, but then she said it.”

Well if that ain’t me

Pls pls PLS let the translation be good…

True to form, all my holds rolled in all at the same time—I’ve got my work cut out for me

It’s so incongruous to my brain how “old” this book feels with its connection to Li-yan’s tu, but here we are in 2008 and my head is spinning