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I really enjoyed this—daily meditations on individual words. McEntyre draws from the Bible and Christian tradition, and here and there from literature, which for me is always a winning combo. It focuses on one word per week, examining it from various angles and encouraging reflection and spiritual practices springing from each daily reading. So many of the meditations really resonated with me—I‘ll come back to this one again.

I love the rain, and I love that we‘ve had a week of it here in Southern California, but today, on week 5 of working from home, I am so thankful for a gorgeous sunny day and a lunchtime change of scenery... even if it‘s just my back patio!

“...quieting the heart is not a simple action, but rather a result of focused intention, resistance to distraction, openness to God, willingness to release anxieties and insults, and the long, slow obedience to one of the most insistent commands in Scripture: ‘Do not be afraid.‘

...It takes courage to be still long enough for... clarity to come. And it takes patience, which is a form of courage.”

I have standing once-a-month lunch plans with a coworker. And on the one hand, I‘m sad that she‘s sick today and had to cancel our lunch. But on the another hand, I‘m really not upset that I had to have lunch alone outside with my books on this gloriously beautiful January day. It‘s 78 and sunny and I don‘t want to go back to work!

Here‘s my other #bookhaul excitement for the week: I finally decided what to get with the gift card I won from my library‘s summer reading program. 😍