A Tiny Baby Boy
So much depends
upon
A tiny baby
Boy
Swaddled in
Blankets
Inside his new
carseat
So much depends
upon
A tiny baby
Boy
Swaddled in
Blankets
Inside his new
carseat
Thursday, June 16, 2011
It is, after all, National Library Week; although I have thought of this message long before I realized that.
I am not sure of my favorite book. I have many. But Gatsby is right up there. I love so many things about the people I meet there. Fitzgerald creates a world of greed and wordliness which God warns us of. While Tom who lives a life of no meaning. Gatsby continues to search for meaning and love and a place in the world. That book reminds me of God’s promise to us of an abundant life with Him and and through Him and the futility and desolation of life without him. I believe the thing I like best about the book is Nick and Gatsy’s friendship. I love in the movie when Sam Waterson says goodby to Gatsby (movie clip.) God has given us one another to love and to care for. He gave me Bunny and Kim and Janet and Laura and Robbie and Dennis and Gary and Aaron and Zach and all of you….In this life. Now. We only get to do this once.
For me Salinger touches the need for prayer and the boundless joy in all of us. In …he describes a victorious tennis player this way. And in Franny and Zooey the effort we make to do our best.
My husband told me I would miss being an English teacher. In some ways I do. But in lots of ways I have more friends. All the students of 42 years. What would I do without Seth, Audrey, Laura, Stephen, Nate, etc.? And I couldn’t manage without you, the faculty and staff (Jennifer Hudson) And I get the chance to browse daily, to walk by Emily, C.S., David, John, Walt, etc.
I almost forgot my inspiration, Carolyn Keene, who wrote the Nancy Drew mysteries. I had such a good example of can-do and independence from her as a girl. Gotta love a sixteen year old with her own roadster, a housekeeper, a lawyer father, an absent boyfriend, and plenty of mysteries to solve. But the Bible has taught me and continues to teach me of the strength, dignity and beauty and patience of a woman of God. (Think Ty Heckelman). I am working on it. I want to be that woman who has boundless energy for God’s work. Who can relax in the simple things of life. Who can work with her hands. Who knows how to love.
(passage from Timothy.)
So many books, so little time. It’s NLW. Read.
I am not sure of my favorite book. I have many. But Gatsby is right up there. I love so many things about the people I meet there. Fitzgerald creates a world of greed and wordliness which God warns us of. While Tom who lives a life of no meaning. Gatsby continues to search for meaning and love and a place in the world. That book reminds me of God’s promise to us of an abundant life with Him and and through Him and the futility and desolation of life without him. I believe the thing I like best about the book is Nick and Gatsy’s friendship. I love in the movie when Sam Waterson says goodby to Gatsby (movie clip.) God has given us one another to love and to care for. He gave me Bunny and Kim and Janet and Laura and Robbie and Dennis and Gary and Aaron and Zach and all of you….In this life. Now. We only get to do this once.
For me Salinger touches the need for prayer and the boundless joy in all of us. In …he describes a victorious tennis player this way. And in Franny and Zooey the effort we make to do our best.
My husband told me I would miss being an English teacher. In some ways I do. But in lots of ways I have more friends. All the students of 42 years. What would I do without Seth, Audrey, Laura, Stephen, Nate, etc.? And I couldn’t manage without you, the faculty and staff (Jennifer Hudson) And I get the chance to browse daily, to walk by Emily, C.S., David, John, Walt, etc.
I almost forgot my inspiration, Carolyn Keene, who wrote the Nancy Drew mysteries. I had such a good example of can-do and independence from her as a girl. Gotta love a sixteen year old with her own roadster, a housekeeper, a lawyer father, an absent boyfriend, and plenty of mysteries to solve. But the Bible has taught me and continues to teach me of the strength, dignity and beauty and patience of a woman of God. (Think Ty Heckelman). I am working on it. I want to be that woman who has boundless energy for God’s work. Who can relax in the simple things of life. Who can work with her hands. Who knows how to love.
(passage from Timothy.)
So many books, so little time. It’s NLW. Read.
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