Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Waiting for the library to open!

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A good book has no ending. ~R.D. Cumming

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~Edwin P. Whipple

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ~Francois Mauriac

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~W.E. Channing





I long to find more good books to read. Please, if you know any, leave a comment with titles!

I am looking for inspirational fiction or non-fiction.

I am referring to books the likes of:

Through Gates of Splendor
The Hiding Place
The Heavenly Man
Joel Rosenberg's series
Same Kind of Different As Me

Photos taken at Hardesty Regional Library, Tulsa, OK.

This is for Anita. In my last post, I referred to a partial canvas hung on the wall--one that I painted for my son, Chris. She wanted to see the whole canvas so here it is.

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written by Dianne at 6:49 PM

10 Comments:

  1. Hi Dianne!
    Oh I haven't had time to just put my feet up and read in months {I read posts, but to me that's like visiting good friends :o)

    What a wonderful painting for your son. {I like the name Christopher too}
    The words are 'guiding words' and I'm sure he tucked them in his heart~

    *Blessings to you, Dianne*
    take care! hope it's not tooo hot.
    {my classroom is cooling off ...just a bit, only in the upper 80's now...
    School won't be out until June 24.
    ahhhh looking forward to that!
    The wedding is coming soon... I'm so excited !!!
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  2. Hi Dianne,
    This painting is just beautiful! Thank you so much for posting the whole canvas for us to enjoy. Remember that field trip to Wisconsin? Well, I would love to learn how to do a banner like this for our church....the colors are stunning and your calligraphy is beautiful. I wish we could visit each other in real life as easily as we can do it on the web! Think of all we could learn from each other! I loved the book, "Same kind of different as me". Our church is going to do a study based on it this fall. Thanks again for sharing...loved the giant books outside the library too!
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  3. I love to read, too. I have read those you mentioned. Here are couple more than were really good.

    Safely Home by Randy Alcorn...a fiction that could be a nonfiction about the underground Chinese church.

    Any of the missionary biographies by YWAM are great.
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  4. I have read Safely Home by Randy Alcorn but think I will go back and reread it. I remember that it was great but I have no recollection of it. Thanks for the tip!
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  5. The canvas is beautiful! I love to read also. Those you listed are among my favorites. I love to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Christy" during the summer months. The Small Woman about Gladys Aylward and No Compromise: The Story of Keith Green are some you might enjoy. I love Francine Rivers' Redeeming Love also. Now off to clean so I can spend some time reading!
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  6. Oh how I love books too! Favorite Christian Authors: Karen Kingsbury, love the Red Gloves series and Donna VanLiere (great Christmas reads)

    Current reads from my women's Bible study include: Becoming a Woman Who Please God by Pat Ennis and Lisa Tatlock. Grew and learned so much from this book.

    Also from my Bible study group, Love to Eat, Hate to Eat by Elyse Fitzpatrick. Of course this is focused on eating issues but I will say it does illuminate for one the control sin can posess on your life if you allow it and I saw all kinds of tangents to other areas of my life where I had let sin sneak in and how to overcome that.
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  7. Oh and pretty much anything by Dr. Erwin Lutzer.
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  8. I love everything I've ever
    read by Andrew Murray. Present
    day authors I enjoy are Ravi
    Zacharias, Mahesh Chavda,
    Derek Prince and Max Lucado.
    I don't read fiction but Kim
    still talks about Frank Peretti's
    books, This Present Darkness
    and Piercing The Darkness as
    two of the best fiction books
    he has ever read. He reads
    constantly!
    Love,
    Sandy
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  9. I have also read To Kill a Mockingbird many many years ago but maybe I need to reread that--and I absolutely love Christy and have read it more than once but will read it again because it has been a number of years since I read it--I've also read some of Karen Kingbury and have tried to read Piercing the Darkness but could not get "in" to it--I need to give it another try.

    It is my understanding that my granddaughter, Ashton, is named after a town in the book?? At least I think that's right.
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  10. And Anita, I would love to teach you how to make a banner. Wouldn't that be fun??
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