These are unusual times, to say the least. I think it’s a God thing that my friend Allison Gingras’s latest book, Seeking Peace: A Spiritual Journey from Worry to Trust, officially launches today. In this, the latest in a series of journals the Lord put on her heart a few years ago, Allison offers seven ways to… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Seeking Peace
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On the Nightstand: Unsheltered
My sister has been, well, my sister for decades and my roommate for nearly sixteen years. Yet we’ve never read a new-to-both-of-us book at the same time. We’re changing that up this month by reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, about two families who lived in a New Jersey home a century apart. I’ve enjoyed several other… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Unsheltered
On the Nightstand: Tuesday’s Journal
It was the day after Ash Wednesday when I stopped by my business mailbox. I had about a million things on my to-do list for the coming three days, and I knew I wouldn’t get through them even with having Friday off. But along with the usual magazines and solicitations was this lovely book, written… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Tuesday’s Journal
On the Nightstand: “Living Memento Mori”
Emily DeArdo is tough. She was diagnosed with end-stage cystic fibrosis when she was just eleven, and fifteen years ago had a double lung transplant. In her first book, she uses the Stations of the Cross as a framework to share her story of living life in true awareness that it will end. I like… Continue reading On the Nightstand: “Living Memento Mori”