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Tag: Emotions

True Feelings

This was a really great book.  Easy to read and not too long which is good for a busy mom like me.  It is written by a mother and daughter who have two different personalities.  She says if you imagine Marilla Cuthbert and Anne Shirley writing a book together, that’s what you’ll get in this book. …

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Choking on a Camel

The title of the story is a reference to Jesus words about the Pharisees who strain at a gnat, but swallow a camel (Matt. 23:24).   The fictional story is about the main character’s experiences in 1980s at a familiar fundamentalist college.  Alex apparently struggles with finding any genuineness among her fundamentalist friends.  The world of her Christian…

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Quiet

I loved this book.  Susan Cain retraces her steps as she researched the introverted personality.  It seems introversion and extroversion are innate in our personalities.  She points to our past conduct guides like Pilgrim’s Progress “which warned readers to behave with restraint if they wanted to make it into heaven.”  (Not exactly Bunyan’s point, but that’s…

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Secure in the Everlasting Arms

A refreshing book! So many ladies’ books dwell too much on our need to feel good about our position in Christ, but they let us off the hook when it comes to personal holiness in a sinful world.  Not so here.  Elisabeth Elliot is known most widely for her marriage to martyred missionary, Jim Elliot.  I…

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