Another Monday, another chance to play along with Melissa‘s The Week In Words carnival. To participate, just share quotes from anything you read this past week. Visit Breath of Life to check out other participants or to submit your own link.
This week, I started to read Thin Places, the spiritual memoir of an author I really like, Mary DeMuth. From the very beginning, she pulled me in.
Surely God is in the nooks and crannies of my life, stooping to earth to woo me. Sometimes I recognize Him, but usually I continue on the mundane path, not realizing a breath of a veil exists between the Almighty and myself…I live in the midst of holy moments, yet only in retrospect do I really see them. I claw at the seams of life, questioning God’s ways, seldom realizing that if I’d stop clawing, I would capture new glimpses of Him through the thin places. God woos me from behind the veil through the tragedies, beauties, surprises, simplicities, and snatches of my life I might overlook.
– Thin Places, p. 14-15
In other reading news, L.(3) has been requesting Dr. Seuss books nearly every night. I don’t complain — I admit to being fond of the whimsical, lyrical rhymes, even when they’re simple. All week, these passages from the Sleep Book have been running through my head:
Sleep thoughts
Are spreading
Throughout the whole land.
The time for night-brushing of teeth is at hand.*****
The number
Of sleepers
Is steadily growing.
Bed is where
More and more people are going.*****
Ninety-nine zillion,
Nine trillion and two
Creatures are sleeping!
So…
How about you?
I’ll be doing a review of `Thin Paces` on my blog February 5th.
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What a great meme! This was a lovely post I enjoyed visiting you again. It’s probably been a year + since I last stumbled upon your blog.
How funny. I just stumbled across the Sleep Book in a Seuss Collection..it was a new one to me, but an instant favorite. Stephen is loving Dr. Seuss right now!
I linked over from Melissa’s carnival.
I love Dr. Seuss, even as a 43-year-old.
Great quotes.
Ooo, that one by Mary is sooo good! I love this: “we live in the midst of holy moments”, and “…a breath of a veil exists between myself and the Almighty”.
Love the Thin Places quote! And Dr. Seuss? a genius!
We read a lot of Dr. Seuss, but I don’t remember that one! It sounds fun.
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I have Thin Places, too. Haven’t started it yet, but your quote is certainly wooing me to put it at the top of my stack.
I’ve never heard of The Sleep Book, but I love Suess.
I’ve never heard of that Seuss book, but based on the portions you shared, I would like to have it to read to my grandkids.
I don’t mind Dr. Seuss at all either, unless I’m in a hurry. They can get sort of long. . . .
I just got DeMuth’s Daisy Chain free on my Kindle, which I never read, so I’m hoping to get to it sometime.
Oh yeah, and I had to say that I LOVE how your “currently reading” sidebar is looking more like mine, with many many books on it at the same time!
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The Thin Places quote really made me slow down and think.
I like Dr Suess, but I’ve never read that one. What a great bedtime story!
Thanks for sharing these.
Add one more to the “never heard of that Seuss book” list! I’ll have to check it out when the grandbabies come! So cute!