…and it’s 40 years ago in Switzerland.
I’ve been meandering through Edith Schaeffer’s L’Abri all year, picking it up now and then. At the start she gives the stated purpose of L’Abri this way:
“To show forth by demonstration, in our life and work, the existence of God.” We have in other words decided to live on [...]
Archive for January 18th, 2008
I found the ideal church…
Posted in Church, Nonfiction on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Divine frustration
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True confession: I’ve been listening to the Bible on cd.
I feel guilty about this because it’s a text, and I feel that studying it properly involves the physical object. But have I just been cowed by the evangelical tradition of “the quiet time”? The “daily devotion”? It conjures up a picture of me at the [...]
The Muse, horses, and motherhood
Posted in Horsemania, Parenting, Writing/Blogging on January 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
My 6-year-old daughter lives in a horsecentric universe. Everything around her is filtered through a grid that asks, “Hmm. I wonder, how would this look with horses?” In honor of Poetry Friday, hosted at Farm School today, here’s ”Horses,” [...]
