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e climb up the curve of letters, wrap arm around, and minds take wing....
Books we have flown with ....
The Twenty-Piece Shuffle: Why the Poor and Rich Need Each Other
"Greg Paul believes that the rich, the impoverished, and everyone in between can learn much from each other if they're willing to walk together. Join Greg as he takes a look at a remarkable paradox, where the poor can miss their blessedness while the wealthy overlook their own desperate needs, and reveals why God has always called the wealthy and powerful to care for people who are poor or excluded." A raw, honest read that kindles a heart to care about the people Jesus cares about... I want to change. Highly recommended
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
As a mother and educator, I'm trying to make ideas stick. The authors credit six key principles to the stickiness of an idea: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories. (Which is exactly how Jesus taught!) Highest Recommendation... fascinating read! (Two of our boys picked up the book and were hooked. I checked it out from the library and ended up buying.) Explore Made to Stick resources
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine
Sharp, vibrant writing from a classic mind, Sayers is brilliant. Her chapters on the Creative Mind, the Chrisian Esthetic and The Other Six Deadly Sins: thought-provoking and transformative. A work and mind I keep returning to. "A thrilling display of intellectual fireworks" ~The New Yorker
Communion with the Triune God
A rich read that I keep dipping back into, savoring .... a guidepost for me as I named this year Communion.
"John Owen and Jonathan Edwards run neck and neck for the first place in profound, faithful, fruitful displays of the glory of God in the salvation of sinners. No one else has laid open the paths of personal fellowship with the three persons of the Trinity the way Owen does. What an honor it would be to God if more of his children knew how to enjoy him the way Owen does." ~ John Piper
On the Stack:
Daisy Chain
It's my habit not to read adult fiction, but I'm attempting this year to have one fictional work on the back burner at a time. Currently, I'm slowly reading through Mary DeMuth's latest from Zondervan: luminous and poetic. Lines a soul keeps turning over, again and again, to watch the play of light...
Learning to Live Financially Free: Hard-Earned Wisdom for Saving Your Marriage & Your Money
A 14-yr-old in this house read this book from cover to cover the afternoon it arrived -- if that's not proof of a compelling read, I'm not sure what is! ~smile~
Having lived financially free for years, and seeing it of primary importance to raise another generation to do likewise, this God-centered book is not only especially timely, but is authored by Curt and Marybeth Whalen, homeschooling parents of six children, who really have been there.... and back: over four years, on one income, they paid off $95,000 of debt. Advising life on a budget so one can live debt-free, the Whalen's believe that giving is key to finances. “That might sound like strange advice to give to people who are in debt up to their eyeballs, but learning to give helped me understand the true purpose of money,” Curt says. A fresh, needful take on finances in this economic climate.
Books our Homeschooling Year has loved:
Jip: His Story 
Poignant and powerful, this one had tears streaming down my cheeks as I choked out the last chapters. One of the best read alouds of our home educating years... Highest Recommendation (8 yrs. and up)
Beehive Reader (All About Spelling)The new companion reader to the stellar All About Spelling program, this hardcover reader is going to last generations: beautiful, classic sketches and artful text for the beginning reader. This was a favorite -- 160 pages that he could read! Excellent!
This is Israel
From Paris to Hong Kong and cities in between, this entire series by Sasek
has become part of a standard read-aloud stack here. Quirky artwork, humorous, fascinating, intriguing text, the series is perfect travel fare for curious young explorers!
Perhaps explore our library page for recommended reads that have transported us to new mind and soul places....
May you embark on words that take you higher up and deeper in.....
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