Our culture doesn’t like to face the idea of death – it means loss, pain and grief. No one wants to think about it but we will all face it.
If we truly believe God is sovereign… what does that mean in this situation? This moment in history?
It seems today has been hijacked by COVID-19 aka the Coronavirus.
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I was dumbfounded how a middle grade novel could so accurately depict raw grief.
From the Back Cover: When Cohen Marah steps over his father’s body in the basement embalming room of the family’s funeral home, he has no idea that he is stepping into a labyrinth of memory. Over the next week, Cohen’s… Continue Reading →
From taps… “all is well, safely rest, God is nigh” to the flag slowly folded and presented… “on behalf of the President of the United States and a grateful nation” to my veteran father-in-law… I was barely controlling my emotion.
From the Back Cover: After Annie Jacobson’s brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he mails her the address of their long-estranged father. If anything should happen to him in Vietnam, Mike says, Annie must let… Continue Reading →
Does keeping track of goals feel like a prison cell? Read on to find out how planners are like underwear. 🙂
Technically, I shouldn’t have picked it up from the Express shelf at the library. I still hadn’t read the book club selection yet for next week – “but it’s a Kate Morton!” I argued with myself. I can still remember her Secret Keeper twist blowing my mind and regardless of my TBR tower, I couldn’t wait to dive in.
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