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After just 100 pages, I am officially a bona fide scientist.

Revisiting a childhood read while I wait for my on-hold library books to be ready for pickup. Didn’t want to start anything too hefty but had the itch for some fantasy/adventure.

“I Know Someone” p. 9

I know someone who kisses the way
a flower opens, but more rapidly.
Flowers are sweet. They have
short, beatific lives. They offer
much pleasure. There is
nothing in the world that can be said
against them.
Sad, isn’t it, that all they can kiss
is the air.

Yes, yes! We are the lucky ones.

“The idea that people should want to flee their bodies so as to ascend somewhere else to be with God simply does not make sense, because the place where God is, is the place where creatures are. God is here with creatures, in this world and in their bodies, because God is constantly giving Godself in the breathing that moves the world” - p. 53.

“While we sleep, great and marvelous things, far beyond our capacities to invent or engineer, are in process–the moon marking the seasons, the lion roaring for its prey, the earthworms aerating the earth, the stars turning in their courses, the proteins repairing our muscles, our dreaming brains restoring a deeper sanity beneath the gossip and scheming of our waking hours. Our work settles into…God’s work.”

My youth students voted on James as the next book for us to study. Here we go!

“[F]aith in action, especially in social action, remains central for this author…. A personal relationship with Jesus and the quest for social justice do not create the competing understandings of Christianity that church history has often made them appear. Both remain absolutely essential to the gospel” (35).