Always Peachy: Living Happy When life Hurts by Amy C Williams My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sometimes books just come when you need them, and I needed to read this book. Always Peachy: Living Happy When Life Hurts by Amy Williams is the perfect combination of laughter and honesty. She has a ton of…
Author: lindablyle
How Do You Stay the Course?
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul…
The Simple Things
“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10a) Happiness is as elusive as it is transient. It has the attention span of a butterfly and about the same lifespan, flitting here and there, and then disappearing just as quickly. So, how can you identify the happiest moment in your life? True…
3 Ways to Create Space for Sabbath Rest
“Sabbath … is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.” —Priscilla Shirer “Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary … It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy…
Special Post: Review of Never Fall Again
Never Fall Again by Lynn H. Blackburn is a real page turner and not just because of the action. I had an invested interest in the outcomes for the characters’ personal lives as well. I am looking forward to the next installment of the Gossamer Falls series partially because I can’t wait to get to…
Knock Until Your Knuckles Hurt?
Meep once tried to steal food out of mouth. You might think that is obnoxious, but it also shows a lot of perseverance. Meep is tenacious, especially when it comes to food. I can push her away and she bounces right back because she is convinced that she must have whatever it is I am…
No Going Back
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis Are You Chasing Your Tail? My cat Sassy is obsessed with chasing her own tail. She goes in circles, gnaws on it, and bats it. While quite often entertaining, sometimes it makes me wonder if I’m chasing my own tail….
The Heart of the Matter
“[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.” C. S. Lewis from The Problem of Pain “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all…
Breathe: Resist the Urge to Continue
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 “The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very…
Just Breathe
“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions Have you ever noticed that…