amusing amusements
17 January, 2013
Book review
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson; fiction
A pastor's memoir to his young son, this book was a recommendation from John Piper's blog. It's not one that you can pick up and down easily, to really absorb the story it must be done in large blocks of time. I can see how Piper found it so beautiful, as it is a pastor viewing the end of his long ministry and wondering if any of it was worthwhile or fruitful.
" That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But, there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals is the Lord's. I need to bear this in mind. "
A pastor's memoir to his young son, this book was a recommendation from John Piper's blog. It's not one that you can pick up and down easily, to really absorb the story it must be done in large blocks of time. I can see how Piper found it so beautiful, as it is a pastor viewing the end of his long ministry and wondering if any of it was worthwhile or fruitful.
" That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But, there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals is the Lord's. I need to bear this in mind. "
In honor of the flood of 2013...
I give you.....
the waterfall "piggie"
echoing the buckets of rain we have received nonstop in East Tennessee
the two year old sports it jauntily in every direction. It cannot be contained.
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