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*sigh*

Oh boy...

When a kind man gets angry, change is coming.

"I'm not the least worried. We can worry when something happens to worry about. Right now, I just feel excited. Aren't you? It's just like when you're about to open up a present."

This book is... not good.

Enraged, Kosta instructed Finton Flood to note any romantic pecadilloes involving Miss Maye. At the time, Finny was uncertain if "peccadilloes" related to bullfighting, stuffed olives, or small leathery mammals, but after looking up the word at home, he better understood Kosta's wishes.

"But if you think he might kill you for your money," Dulcie had asked, "why on earth are you marrying him?"

"Well, I'm really looking forward to the honeymoon," said Constance.

The dose should not kill you." He turned to Tissier... "It won't kill them?"

Tissier seesawed the flat of his hand.

"It will not kill you," repeated the dean. "And we have the antidote at the ready." Again he murmured toward Tissier, "We have the antidote at the ready?"

The Frenchman shrugged.

"And the antidote is at the ready," confirmed the dean.

Book #6 of the fall/Halloween season.

Book #5 of the Halloween/fall season.

I imagine there are a lot of people out there like me who discover they have a skill at something they like rather than love. But most of us have to earn a living, which is probably why there are any number of accomplished urologists in the world.

"He's going to be someone God can use in a powerful way someday. But you cannot trust what he says now; he hasn't been to prison yet." This was an attitude that I would encounter often in China. Personal trust and respect for spiritual maturity were often in direct proportion to the amount of suffering that had been endured for the Faith. Most remarkable was the underlying assumption persecution would happen.

The network of house churches did not have, or want, church buildings to gather in, or sanctuaries with rows of pews where people could sit and worship on Sunday mornings. But they certainly knew what it meant to love and look after the concerns and needs of their members. They knew what it meant to be church for one another.

...the more I am bathing my heart in the wonder of God's forgiveness of me, the more willing I am to forgive others.