“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness…I keep on swallowing.” (A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis)
While I would never aspire to fully understand and interpret exactly what C.S. Lewis meant by this quote, I can say that for many years I feared a specific kind of grief. Grief and fear, in my mind, walked hand in hand,…
I never mastered the Monkey Bars and I would like to blame that on Google. I’d like to blame Google because it wasn’t around when I needed to google how to swing from rung to rung on the bars like a monkey swaying through the trees. I could climb to the top of the monkey bars and perch myself there, but I could not even begin to gracefully let go of one rung and grasp the next. But I guess it’s not fair to blame Google…
I never mastered the Monkey Bars and I would like to blame that on Google. I’d like to blame Google because it wasn’t around when I needed to google how to swing from rung to rung of the bars like a monkey swaying through the trees. I could climb to the top of the monkey bars and perch myself there, but I could not even begin to gracefully let go of one rung and grasp the next. But I guess it’s not fair to blame Google even though many videos…
A couple of weeks ago, we recommended a few Advent books for your Christmas season. Several of you have commented to us about the selections. Thank you! I’ve also heard specifically from some people about how timely a particular entry was because regardless of Christmas coming, life also just keeps coming, doesn’t it? On a lighter note, it seems that books I want to read keep coming at me faster than ever right now. It’s no secret that Sheryl and I are voracious readers and have…