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 [...]
During my teenage years, three brothers were born into my family: three delightful, exasperating, energetic little people who needed a lot of chasing, feeding, and lulling to sleep. As the oldest sister, I got to be part of that process. One of my favorite jobs was reading bedtime stories – as long as I got [...]
As a single young woman, one of the things God has laid on my heart is to reach out to younger girls who want to grow spiritually. God has opened doors in amazing ways, and over the last couple of years I’ve been in a position to really invest in the lives of several teenage [...]
In the evening hours of the past few months I’ve been transported to a faraway island: my husband has been reading aloud Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe. You’re probably familiar with the story: Crusoe is the lone survivor of a shipwreck. He manages to survive with the fruit of the island upon which he lands, and [...]
WPA Poster #98507722 from the Library of Congress
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