What marriage taught me about "the best day of my life"
I heard it said that your wedding day is the best day of your life. But marriage is exquisite. It balances the whimsical nature of...
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Shanley McConnell
Sep 2011 min read
Mastering the commonplace: a conversation on work and rest
The sky feels almost translucent; from the window I watch a sunrise open its vast, blue wings to reveal a more heavenly scape. The...
Shanley McConnell
Sep 185 min read
For want of goodness
In the 10th century BC, a musician named Asaph reflected on the nature of his home in the world by reflecting on the nature of God. Where...
Aug 10, 20205 min read
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, 20206 min read
Jul 24, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20207 min read
Devotion: For The Joy Before Us
Devotion: For The Joy Before Us //
May 18, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20202 min read
Quarantine Playlist Pt. 1
~ ~ // Eli Rose, Dis-moi // Eli Rose, Carrousel // L'Impératice, Vanille fraise // AKMU, Chantey // TAEYEON, Blue // Sufjan Stevens,...
Apr 29, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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....
Mar 28, 20201 min read
A Friday Film: Spirited Away (2001)
~ ~ Spirited Away, a studio ghibli film dir. by Hayao Miyazaki Spirited Away is gorgeousness, a beautiful composition of melody, rhythm,...
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Devotion: Worship
"It was planted in good soil beside abundant waters, that it might yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine," Ezekial...
Mar 23, 20202 min read
The Monday Review, week thirteen
The Monday Review. Self-isolation reads. Anne Enright. Haruki Murakami. Kate Folk. The New Yorker. Linda Boström Knausgård.
Mar 23, 20203 min read
Devotion: In The Holiest of Holy Places
You will seek me, and you will find me, when you seek me with all your heart," Jeremiah 29v13. ~ ~ Dear friends ♡ I've written this...
Mar 23, 20202 min read
Devotion: One Thing
~ Good morning friends ♡ I'm thinking of you today, as we all hide away in self-isolation and try to remain calm & encouraged in these...
Mar 6, 20201 min read
A Friday Film: Us and Them (2018)
Us and Them, dir. Rene Liu ~ ~ Released 28th April 2018, Us and Them (Hoòulái de Women) is the story of two stranger who meet on a train...
Feb 28, 20205 min read
Devotion: Collaboration > Competition
~ ~ Satan (sin) wants to isolate. He seeks the solo competitor------easier this way to overpower. To overshadow the power of...
Feb 19, 20206 min read
Devotion: As Those Who Are Alive
~ ~ In Mark 6, Jesus sought a space where it was quiet. A place of rest. Him and his disciples had been busy with good, restorative...
Feb 17, 20202 min read
The Monday Review, week twelve
~ ~ 1. Bridge Of Clay, Markus Zusak Markus Zusak's Bridge Of Clay has been on The Monday Review list for a long while now, and (because...
Feb 13, 20204 min read
Devotion: When The Simpliest Things in Life Expose Loneliness, and other thoughts
~ ~ "You satisfy me as with rich food; my mouth will praise you with joyful lips," Psalm 63v5. Sometimes we feel alone, empty, fatigued. ...
Feb 6, 20205 min read
Devotion: Practice Rest
~ Beginning a new devotional week with the story of Jesus' birth. Luke 2:1-7. But let us look at one verse, five words: "And while they...
Feb 3, 20204 min read
Recipes of the Month: Beginning February
~ ~ (also, in replace of this weeks' Monday Review), I thought I'd write something new. A couple favorite recipes from my semester. But...
Feb 2, 20203 min read
Devotion: Let Imperfection Lead Us to the Heart of Imagination
~ ~ A stroke of imperfection runs through everything and everyone we came across in this world; even the things we hope will...
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