I
can't articulate it properly right now (it's past my bedtime, I'm
only up because I just picked up the Hunger Games and had to finish
it today - what a ride) but I'm so thankful for the kinds of
conversations we have. My normal circles are either not Christian, or
not particularly intellectual or both. I'm no longer intellectual,
but I like listening to you all talk :). So I hope people keep
posting.
Rebecca, just read Hinds Feet finally and it was so great. Thanks so much. Now feel the need to give it to everyone I know :). Also reading Secret to a Happy Christian Life by Hannah Whitall Smith and finding it hard to get and depressing.
Happy news - a church we had been going to awhile ago just planted a 'campus' 2 miles from our house. They have a ladies BIble study that I can go to and a Wednesday night service that most of us can attend. Super Great!
Listening to David Crowder Band 'Give Us Rest' - very good stuff.
Love to you all,
Rebecca, just read Hinds Feet finally and it was so great. Thanks so much. Now feel the need to give it to everyone I know :). Also reading Secret to a Happy Christian Life by Hannah Whitall Smith and finding it hard to get and depressing.
Happy news - a church we had been going to awhile ago just planted a 'campus' 2 miles from our house. They have a ladies BIble study that I can go to and a Wednesday night service that most of us can attend. Super Great!
Listening to David Crowder Band 'Give Us Rest' - very good stuff.
Love to you all,
lis
Hi Lis!
ReplyDeleteI am curious to hear more of your thoughts on the Hunger Games. I really got into the books for a while and was constantly ruminating about various thoughts about food and children who undergo trauma and inequity in the world and violence and etc.
So, we will have to chat about that one of these days.
Anyway--yes I share your thoughts about appreciating the amazing combination of Christ-following and deep-thinking women that I've somehow married into by a stroke of blessing. :)
And I'm glad you liked the book! It was definitely huge in my spiritual formation. . .I think we have similar taste in books! Because I really loved the Stepping Heavenward that you gave us a while back.
Yeah for church! :) That's an answer to prayer. Praise God for His faithfulness.
Rebecca
Wow!! Two new blog posts in one day!! Crazy!!
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love talking/communicating with you intellectual, Christ-loving women. We are so blessed!
I plowed through the Hunger Games not too long ago, and considering how long I put off reading them, was amazed that I liked them so much. I thought the author was thoughtful and creative, but I'm not so sure that I loved that James and Abby read them. Especially since they weren't keen to thoroughly analyze them once I'd read them. And I felt that the morality of the books (like the Twilight series) seemed to be that as long as you protect and are loyal to some "in" group, then anything is acceptable. I wonder if that is now the accepted norm.
And so glad that a good church has moved near you, that God is working everything out. I'll continue to pray that God oversees and blesses your settling and transitioning into a this new community.
Love you.
Sorry. CampHillGirl is Rachel. :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't thought too deeply about Hunger Games yet, need to read the other two (and can't get to the library til wed). Right now kind of annoyed about the last scene with the mutts and the torture of Cato. Would have let Will read if not for that. Seemed deus-ex-machina and over the line.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're thinking about it, Lis. :) Sorry I haven't posted before. I tried once, and failed to register, somehow, and didn't follow up. Not even sure I can post this comment.
ReplyDeleteUmm, so yeah, I can comment. Gonna see if it's easier this time. :) And I liked the immediate self-sacrifice that put Katniss in the ring, but definitely had issue with the morals that followed.
ReplyDeleteSo what should they have done? Seems to me the d12s didn't kill unless self-defense or mercy. I was concerned going in how she was going to handle it, but she never had them cold-blooded killing anyone. I don't think I had the moral problem. Again, have only read the 1st.
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