Teaser Tuesday Oct 11

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Yes I know it's nothing like Tuesday but busyness currently reigns!

He says that this correction of distortion enables people to see each other in a completely different light. They are able to gain the dignity of mutuality.

From Una Kroll's Forgive and Live I found this a helpful book, I was reading it partially for a talk preparation but also because issues of forgiveness have loomed large for me in recent years - maybe that's true for all of us as we age! She takes us through anonymized case studues, Biblical reflection and the connections. Recommended!

Teaser Tuesday - Mar 19

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

The yellow medallion on the carpet was glowing like a jewel. Kitty, wearing a long peacock-blue evening dress with a pendant hood, was gazing at me.

And back to Murdoch's A Word Child, her novel on forgiveness viewed through the eyes of a deeply difficult individual - there's times when you really want to shout at the 'hero'. Just before this post I got directed (by @christineburns) to this article on the NHS website picking up the forgiveness theme.

Teaser Tuesday - Feb 5

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

The first expresses the spirit of martyrdom in itself, its basic attitude: a spirit of love which cannot be defeated by suffering or injustice. A very young priest who was imprisoned at the beginning of the Russian revolution, and came out a broken man, was asked what was left of him, and he answered: 'Nothing is left of me, they have burnt out every single thing, love only survives.'

From Anthony Bloom (Metropolitan Anthony)'s book Living Prayer - forgiveness in extremis, a very practical and down to earth volume. I've had this book for a long time and this is a much needed re-read.