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One of my all-time favorite authors, Madeleine L'Engle Franklin, who wrote A Wrinkle in Time, has died. She passed away on September 6th at the age of 88.

http://www.madeleinelengle.com/news/

She wrote over 60 books for children and adults, fantasy-type stuff and straight fiction, nonfiction too--inspirational and autobiography, and poetry. She was my hero. Her Christian religion and her family were both very important to her. She came to her faith as a young adult and it underscores all her writing. (If you're not looking for it, you might not even notice it.) All her work is hopeful, optimistic.

If you haven't read any of her stuff, I highly recommend it. (Duh!) Some of my favorites are: The Small Rain (her very first book), The Love Letters, A Live Coal in the Sea. Also I love to read her autobiographies. The first one is A Circle of Quiet.

For quick reads try her so-called children's books (adults love them, too): A Wrinkle in Time, etc., etc.

For a complete list of her books you can go to her official website http://www.madeleinelengle.com/. If you want to know more about any book (though I haven't read absolutely ALL of them) or about her, ask away and I'll do my best to answer.

But DO go check out one of her books!

Posted in Church and Ministry

Have you ever felt that you were on the cusp of something new and exciting, that something wonderful was just about to happen, even though you weren't quite sure what it was? It has felt that way for me in our little community church for the last few years. As if there was all this potential for marvelous change swirling around in us just waiting for the right opening or right direction in order to break forth. Our beloved pastor of twelve years retired for health reasons some time back and since then we have been through two pastor searchs, an interim pastor, many fill-in pastors, and a marvelous man who was able to lead us in ministry for only a year and also had to retire for health reasons.

But now it seems as if a new wind may be blowing into our congregation and community, a wind of the Spirit. God has brought us together with a new pastor and it seems to me He is just about to break out all over us and our community! We've been a herd of horses sort of milling around and now our energies and inspirations are about to be harnessed together into a team that heads out into one direction!

I'm a bit excited. :)

See us here: http://www.lccworship.org/