Books again and a brief chit-chat

All I seem to write about recently is books. :)

Chatterbox and I are still reading our latest Famous Five book, Five Go Off in a Caravan. We've just got to the exciting part and I'm afraid I am just as interested as Chatterbox is and we read far too late!



Squidge has acquired a new Julia Donaldson book (we love Julia Donaldson books - of The Gruffalo fame), Tabby McTat - the busker's cat. Wonderful.

Tabby McTat

‘Tabby McTat was a busker’s cat
With a miaow that was loud and strong.
The two of them sang of this and that,
And people threw coins in the old checked hat,
And this was their favourite song:

“Me, you and the old guitar,
How perfectly, perfectly happy we are.
MEEE-EW and the old guitar,
How PURRRR-fectly happy we are.” ‘

After putting aside The Three Musketeers, I read 'Sister Freaks - Stories of Women Who Gave Up Everything for God'. It's a series of testimonies of various women who have overcome hardships of differing kinds to follow Jesus. It wasn't as inspiring as 'Jesus Freaks' - that book deeply moved me. I don't think this one was particularly well written to be honest, the writing was a bit stilted and what should have been moving stories felt mundane. But it was OK.

I'm now re-reading the Janette Oke series Love Comes Softly. I first read Janette Oke after I was given the 'Seasons of the Heart' series. I loved the books. They are easy to read and are beautiful, simple stories. Michele, my friend from A Quiet, Gracious Life, kindly sent me the whole Love Comes Softly series. I loved them when I read them the first time and I am loving it all over again! So thanks again Michele!

Janette Oke books

So, how am I?

I've not been 100%, been feeling tired and having a few dizzy spells. Hopefully it'll blow over, I'm off to the doctor's tomorrow so hopefully it's nothing. I'd be grateful for your prayers of course! :)

I haven't got any deep and meaningful words to say. Here are a few scriptures we've been learning about at church:

I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
~Romans 7:21-25a

Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

“ God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
~1 Peter 5:5b-7

We ought to be humble for if it weren't for our Lord Jesus Christ we would be lost in our miserable sin. Thanks be to God for Jesus Christ!