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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Prayer is like a Murmuring Stream


The prayer of the heart...is indeed like a murmuring stream that continues underneath the many waves of every day and opens the possibility of living in the world without being of it and of reaching out to our God from the center of our solitude.

This is from Henri Nouwen's The Only Necessary Thing, p.119.

I-I-I  what can I say?

A Real Life Heroine

 Another book review: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon is historical fiction.  The chief protagonist is Martha Ballard, a real person who li...