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The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.- Francis Schaeffer



Is our image of "the state of the world" and of our role in it any way shaped by the fact that we are Christians? What fundamental grid do we work from as we project meaning on bare "facts" to navigate our lives? Does our world fundamentally taste sour? Do we look at it through rose tinted glasses? Or is it the bare stage of our unexpected encounters with the mystery of God?



"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
G. K. Chesterton



"We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are, to see through plastic sham to living, breathing reality, and to break down our defenses of self-protection in order to be free to recieve and give love."
Madeline L'Engle



"To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist."

Cardinal Suhard



"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
Anna Quindlen



"Christ didn't tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it. The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other." - Fred Thompson



All of our uncertainties about nutrition should not obscure the plain fact that the chronic diseases that now kill most of us can be traced directly to the industrialization of our food: the rise of highly processed foods and refined grains; the use of chemicals to raise plants and animals in huge monocultures; the superabundance of cheap calories of sugar and fat produced by modern agriculture; and the narrowing of the biological diversity of the human diet to a tiny handful of staple crops, notably wheat, corn, and soy. - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food



A Christian imagination does not see the world as a prison from which the soul must escape, but as the stage of humanity's interaction with its God.



"The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his."
- George MacDonald











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Feb. 18, 2009
pictures from my bookshelf

My favorite children's book ever: The Riverside Anthology of Children's Literature


up up up up up!!!  I love it.  I can't even reach the top shelf without a chair!  The shelves stop 6 inches away from the ceiling!


my favorite part of my bookshelf - the coloring books!   I want to eventually own almost all of Dover's coloring books, LOL.  I have a decent selection so far.....these aren't for the kids to color in; I use them to make copies.   And no one yell at me I have 5 kids, I'm not going to buy 5 copies of each coloring book when we only use a couple pages out of each one





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Aug. 13, 2009 - Bookshelf...

Posted by Satori (satorismiles.com)


Wow, I love your library! I built one for my daughter, but would love to build one for myself too... I just wrote a post about those Dover coloring books today, we are in love with them. And yes, we copy the pages too. :)


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Oct. 28, 2009 - I'm jealous!

Posted by SchoolinMama


Wow! Your library is amazing! We had 4 bookshelves and added two this year, one of each side of the fireplace. We are so out of room, but I love the whole wall idea for convenience and to decorate with books!

And some of the Dover books are copyright free, anyway, but I had to check. This one say you may use it for "graphics and craft applications, free..." so I think they're okay to copy for the kids' coloring pages.

Be blessed,
Danielle


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