BOOKS ~ added to my Kindle
Ch. 1 ~ The Dream of GodAgain and again the Christian church has fallen away from the dream God has for it, a dream in which we are called to follow Jesus and not merely to worship him.
Ch. 2 ~ The Biblical Story
Ch. 3 ~ The Rejection of the Dream
Ch. 4 ~ The Temptations of the Church
Ch. 5 ~ The Persistence of the Dream
The Daughter ~ by Lucy Dawson, 2017, psychological thriller
In the Beginning...: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis ~ by Isaac Asimov, 1981Seventeen years ago, something happened to Jess’s daughter Beth. The memory of it still makes her blood run cold. Jess has tried everything to make peace with that day, and the part she played in what happened. It was only a brief moment of desire, but she’ll pay for it with a lifetime of guilt.
To distance herself from the mistakes of the past, Jess has moved away and started over with her family. But when terrifying things begin happening in her new home, Jess knows that her past has finally caught up with her. Somebody feels Jess hasn’t paid enough, and is determined to make her suffer for the secrets she’s kept all these years.
Youth ~ by Isaac Asimov, 1952, short fictionIn our Western civilization, there are two influential accounts of beginnings and the origin of life. One is the Biblical account, compiled more than two thousand years ago by Judean writers who based much of their thinking on the Babylonian astronomical lore of the day. The other is the account of modern science, which has built up a coherent picture of how it all began. Both represent the best thinking of their times, and in this line-by-line annotation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis, Isaac Asimov even-handedly compares the two accounts, pointing out where they are similar and where they are different. Asimov says if the Biblical writers "had written those early chapters of Genesis knowing what we know today, we can be certain that they would have written it completely differently."
This novelette first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction. It's one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters.CALENDAR
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| Click to enlarge the Friendly February calendar |
Feb. 1 ~ Send someone a message to say how much they mean to you.
Feb. 2 ~ Ask a friend what good things have happened to them recently.
Feb. 3 ~ Be gentle with someone you feel inclined to criticize.
Feb. 4 ~ Get in touch with an old friend you've not seen in awhile.
4 comments:
I downloaded the February happiness calendar today, too, and was going to include it in today's post. :-)
I'm glad you are focusing on "living happy" this year, as you said in your Sunday Salon post. I like that! And I like our new Friendly February calendar from Action for Happiness. A lot of the suggestions seem to repeat what we did in January, but that's okay. Maybe it will help us "hard-wire" the thoughts into our heads so we think of them often.
I’m also downloading the calendar for my blog. Funny. I’m with you, Bonnie. I hope the ideas are hard-wired into my brain.
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We three book buddies are still plugging along, making the world a happier place, month by month, one day at a time. See https://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2018/01/mindfulness-resolutions-or-are-these.html for when we inspired each other. I've had this blog since January 2007, and we've all been commenting on many of the same book blogs over the years.
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