Love is patient, part one
Let us not become weary in doing good, for we believe that in God's timing we will receive a harvest from our endurance. Wait patiently...
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Shanley McConnell
- Feb 6
- 2 min
The Monday Review, week twenty five
1. Brother of the More Famous Jack, Barbara Trapido This small, seemingly unassuming novel was recommended to me by a new friend in...
Shanley McConnell
- Jan 30
- 3 min
The Monday Review, week twenty four
1. Dear Boy, Emily Berry I walked into old memories where I would visit the quiet, brightly-lit fourth floor of the Wellgate Library on...
- Mar 8, 2021
- 6 min
The Monday Review, week eighteen
~ The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa Translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder, Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police is a plaintive commentary on...
- Mar 7, 2021
- 6 min
Devotion: 6 Ways to Embrace Stillness
Come to me with all prayer and supplication, that words may be given and boldly proclaimed for the revelation and mystery of the gospel,...
- Feb 1, 2021
- 9 min
Devotion: Peace
~ Peace I leave with you; my peace will I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled or afraid...
- Jan 8, 2021
- 8 min
Devotion: Daily Bread
Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily...
- Jan 4, 2021
- 6 min
Devotion Saying Goodbye to Christmas & New Year in 2 Diary Entries
Devotion: Saying Goodbye to Christmas & New Year in Diary Entries
- Dec 13, 2020
- 5 min
Devotion: The Lonely, Precious Way (New Beginnings, Part Two)
Be strong and of good courage. Do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you, wherever you may go. ---- Joshua 1:9 Causing...
- Dec 8, 2020
- 6 min
Devotion: The Encore of Thanksgiving (New Beginnings, Part One)
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. -- American journalist Jim Bishop The wind is November's muse --...
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Monday Review, week seventeen
~ ~ 1. The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino The Devotion of Suspect X is Keigo Higashino's third novel in the Detective Galileo...
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Refuge: Online Literary Journal
~ ~ My friends, In this unprecendented time, when philanthrophic efforts must be reshaped to respect lockdown regulations, I believe art...
- Nov 23, 2020
- 5 min
The Monday Review, week sixteen
This week's Monday Review contains a varied list of novels read over the last couple of months, in order of when I read them ♡ If you...
- Nov 17, 2020
- 6 min
Devotion: Psalms for a Pilgrim People
~ ~ Listen to the wind whip. A storm is brewing. A storm like a sea creature, with tentacles latching hold of the soft, tactile waters of...
- Oct 21, 2020
- 8 min
Devotion: The Mystery of Grace and Omnisciency
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother's womb, so, too, are you unable to u
- Sep 1, 2020
- 6 min
Devotion: Poetry in the Posture of Waiting & Rest
May we be open to receiving an answer from God no matter what form and time he chooses.
- Aug 10, 2020
- 5 min
The Monday Review, week fifteen
Dear friends ♡ Welcome back to another Monday Review. I'm so happy for the chance to share these favourites with you.
- Jul 29, 2020
- 6 min
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
Cinema: Better Days (2019)
Better Days, dir. Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang ~ Note I wrote this review about seven months ago, prior to the coronavirus outbreak and...
- Jul 12, 2020
- 4 min
Devotion: Preparing The Way
~ ~ And it shall be said: 'Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way.' For so says the One who...
- Jun 15, 2020
- 7 min
Devotion: For The Joy Before Us
Devotion: For The Joy Before Us //
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
Devotion: The Wilderness Years
I will be your God throughout your lifetime—until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you...
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
Devotion: The Storm
~ But soon, a tempestous wind, called the Northeaster, struck down from the land. And when the ship was caught, the crew gave way to it...
- May 1, 2020
- 2 min
Quarantine Playlist Pt. 1
~ ~ // Eli Rose, Dis-moi // Eli Rose, Carrousel // L'Impératice, Vanille fraise // AKMU, Chantey // TAEYEON, Blue // Sufjan Stevens,...
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
Devotion: How Prayer > Proximity
~ ~ 'In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. He had a wife from the daughters...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 4 min
The Monday Review, week fourteen
Good morning, afternoon, evening-------I hope you are my well & feeling connected wherever you are at whatever time you read this. This...
- Apr 25, 2020
- 3 min
Devotion: Abundancy
~ ~ I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10v10 --- Most believers in Jesus trust in this promise-----in theory....
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