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"The Call to Joy & Pain: Embracing suffering in your ministry," by Ajith Fernando.

There's a story in it I read today that I keep wanting to re-read even though I remember everything in it. It goes like this:
Ajith Fernando wrote:Once when we were having some serious problems in our ministry, I came home after a meeting deeply hurt. I lay in bed and burst into tears. My son walked into the room and for the first time saw his father crying. He went to his mother and asked what was wrong. She told him that I was having serious problems at work. Then he went to my computer, opened my e-mail address book, and wrote a letter to some of my best friends. It said that I was going through a lot of stress and asked for prayer for me. When I heard that he had done this, I was thrilled. I think the pain of that difficult time is leaving me, but I think I will always remember and be impacted by the kindness shown by my son.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Read The Secret History by Donna Tartt over the weekend. Enjoyed it. Not really sure how to describe it... :lol:

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Then did you truly read it? ;)

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

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Just finished "Go Set a Watchman," by Harper Lee.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Orlion wrote:Then did you truly read it? ;)
Haha, I meant "genre" -wise. It's sorta a murder mystery without the mystery.

I really enjoyed her other book, "The Goldfinch" as well. Just good contemporary fiction I guess. I still have one more of hers, so will have to read it. :D

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Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. My last unread book...not sure if I'm enjoying it yet...not too far in though.

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Arcadia by Iain Pears. So far, awesome. But I expected that from Pears. I don't know why his books aren't wildly more popular except that they aren't really "light" reading. You get so involved.
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More Fool Me, an autobiographical work by Stephen Fry.

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A Theology of Criticism: Balthasar, Postmodernism, and the Catholic Imagination by Michael P. Murphy
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The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
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Orlion wrote:Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
So random.. was just hanging out with friends, and someone gave this book as an example of, "Something made out of things which aren't sentences."

And then he read us an example. :)

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The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
That sounds like an awesome topic!
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

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Wosbald wrote:The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart
That sounds like an awesome topic!
Sho'nuff. 8)

Very good, so far, I tell you what.
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Wosbald wrote:Sho'nuff. 8)

Very good, so far, I tell you what.
Yay! :banana:
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

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Wosbald wrote:Sho'nuff. 8)

Very good, so far, I tell you what.
Yay! :banana:
I should note that one has to be fairly well-founded in, and enthused about, philosophy and/or theology to really get into it.

I think that Z might get something out of this book (assuming that he hasn't already read it). It equitably engages Nietzsche and his inheritors, commending them where appropriate (i.e. in their rebellion against an essentialist ontotheological totalism) while chiding them in their tendency to view Difference (or "Differance"), instead of as an open space for the manifold appearing of Beauty, as the locus of a fundamental Chaos (which, ironically, tends to become its own totalism of an existentialist cast).
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Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
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Sanctus by Simon Toyne.

Looks like a Da Vinci Code type thing...

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Emperor: The Gates of Rome book 1 of Conn Iggulden's historical fiction of the rise of Caesar.

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Acceptance, Book 3 in the Southern Reach Trilogy. An intricate and very different book. I was worried that it was going to set up mysteries it didn't have the chops to unfold (*cough*George RR Martin*cough*) (lol) but very satisfying so far.
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Emperor: The Death of Kings, book 2 of Iggulden's Rome series.

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