A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero
Click the images for captions and close-up views of the bookshelves of the YLCF Team Members (those who aren’t in the midst of cross-country moves and beginning deployment, that is!). And start taking pictures of your own books: we’re having a [...]
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
-Henry Ward Beecher
They are piled artfully on the desk. They mount to the lampshade on the bedside table. They wobble in stacks as precarious as a loose boulder jutting over a snowy mountainscape.
Oh, yes. And they fill the bookshelves.
What [...]
Christmas Eve, 2007
adapted from my journal
On Christmas Eve morning I was up at five. I wondered if any of my neighbors were astir at that hour, but all the other houses through the trees were dark. It was my own, private, precious hour with Jesus—on a day when His humanity is nearer to my heart [...]
“So… what do you do?”
The question has been presented in various forms over the two years John and I have been married. I heard it again last weekend at the wedding we attended.
Before I answer, I ask myself, what do I do?
Thinking over my days I remember the many little things that fill them. [...]
A flautist in South Africa. A student pounding the pavement in St. Petersburg. A young doctor in Aberdeen. A writer in Nashville. A mother of two in Alaska. Night nurses. School teachers. Nannies. Baristas. Scholars and entrepreneurs. Domestic engineers and dairy farmers. Singers, dancers, scribblers and seamstresses.
This is you.
This is the Young Ladies Christian Fellowship. [...]
