With her Saviour now.

Mamasmurf, Chrissy, is in her eternal home now, but she will be so dearly missed by her husband and son in their home in England.  Please keep this family in your prayers as they grieve.

There is more information here.

I had discovered her blog only a couple of weeks before she went into the hospital.  She had left some kind remarks on a couple of my posts, and that is how I became aware of her blog.  I had been reading back through it, getting to know her better, but had not gotten around to adding her to my Friends' list.  I am sorry that I did not know her in real life, but I am so thankful that I got to meet her here, and I look forward to knowing her for all eternity.

A Quote for Today:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis, from God in the Dock

My Favourite Season

 

 

"Behold congenial Autumn comes,
the Sabbath of the Year."
- John Logan, 1748 – 1788

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"O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
- William Blake, To Autumn, 1783

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"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."
- A Children's Song of the 1880's

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"No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face."
- John Donne

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 Autumn from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

 

Fall Reading Challenge

  Read Alouds:

                                Narnia (by C. S. Lewis):

                                finish      Voyage of the Dawn Treader  this week

                                then       The Silver Chair

                                then       The Magician's Nephew

                                then       The Last Battle

                                Literature:

                                                The Complete Milne

                                                The Complete Beatrix Potter 

                                                Just So Stories by Kipling

                                History:

                                                On the Shores of the Great Sea by Synge

                                Poetry:

                                                Hiawatha's Childhood

                                w/Toodles:

                                                A Flower Fairy Alphabet by Cicely Mary Barker

                                                Mary Poppins from A to Z by P. L. Travers 

                       

Personal:

                                Reimaginning Church by Frank Viola (read & critique per a friend’s request)

                                Sabbath by Wayne Muller (finish)

                                How to Study the Bible by Kay Arthur (re-read as I am teaching it to a Jr. High Sunday class)

                                H. P. 4 & 5

                                Persuasion by Jane Austen

I hope to read more fiction books, but I will wait to see what I find at the library (or on my own shelves) as the weeks progress.

                               

                               

                                               

 

 

 

Congratulations Belinda!

My blogfriend, Belinda  is this week's featured blogger.  If you've not visited her blog before, you really should.  Her motto is "Live life with your kids!" and I love reading about how she does just that.  From her writing, I can tell that she loves the Lord, brings honour to her husband, and is a great mum.  She is so gracious and encouraging as well as sensible and wise.  Some day I would just love to have a cuppa with her down under in Australia.  She has a great getting-to-know-you post here, and she also has a website, Lifestyle Homeschool.