reading

So many books and not enough time.

These books, whether they are self-help books, biographies, or fictional, will teach me something. I will close the back cover upon reading the last word and I will somehow be better for reading the words contained inside.

Some will teach me about the lives of real people, how they met and how they lived their lives. Some will teach me about history and how others lived in a different time and a different place. Some will teach me how I should be living my life, now and for the future.

Some I have started, read the first chapter and put it down in order to finish another book that was started days or weeks before.

This stack won't get any shorter because there will always be more books to add to the stack.  

Inside the pages of books is where I go to lose myself.

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."    ~ Mason Cooley

love me always

“Your goodness to me has been overwhelming. How tender you are, though I am often as tough as gristle. How patiently you have loved me since you made up your mind to love me always.”                                 ― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel

Happy Anniversary my love!

The Mitford Series

Are you looking for a good read? I highly recommend the Mitford Series by Jan Karon.

I just finished her latest in the series, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good.

I first discovered this series years ago, back in 1995, when a good friend of ours had read the first book, At Home in Mitford, and then she gave it to my mother-in-law to read. My mother-in-law then gave it to me to read and we were all hooked.

I immediately was pulled into the little fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina. I loved Father Tim and was always looking forward to the next book to see what he would be doing next.

If you like books that are part of a series, please don't hesitate to read this series. There are a total of ten books and you must start with number one. You will get pulled into Father Tim's life and it won't take long to get through the whole series. I just finished because I have read each and everyone, since that first book, as soon as it was released.

If you do decide to read these books, please don't hesitate to let me know how you are enjoying them.

Love from the Preacher and I

Somewhere Safe for 30 Years

Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person:

having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, 

but to pour them out.

Just as they are -- chaff and grain together, knowing

that a faithful hand will take and sift them,

keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath

of kindness, blow the rest away.

   -- Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik, 1826-1887

"To be somewhere safe with somebody good....to be safe with 

you is grace beyond measure"

-- Cynthia / from the book "Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good" Jan Karon

Happy Anniversary to the one I will love forever!