+ Happy Feast of St. Nicholas! It’s a good day to practice generosity, recite the Nicene Creed and punch a heretic in the nose.
+ Chuck DeGroat’s excellent post on Advent Disappointment is worth contemplating.
+ I finished Start Something That Matters, and I really liked it. It’s a simple, quick read that will inspire people to follow their dreams, start small, and give. You have a few days left to win your own copy here.
+ The girl scouts were right, “make new friends and keep the old.” I have felt loved and known in the last few weeks, and that gives me a little hope that Memphis might start to feel like home. In the meantime, good conversations with old friends are still so precious they can buoy several days.
Search This Classical Life:
categories:
in the middle of:
read in 2016:
Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969
Mandel, Station Eleven
Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saintsarchives:
“one is silver, but the other’s gold…”
It’s hard. . . I feel like God has really provided relationships for me with this past move (more so than the kids, so that is still hard.) We’ve been here 9 months. . . We’ll leave after just two years. But, still. . . those relationships given are really treasured.