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September 17, 2010

Thankful Thursday

Today is everything a fall day should be—crisp in the morning and sunny and warm in the afternoon. The leaves have turned, mostly, and it’s all glorious. This is the shortest season for us, so we don’t get too many perfect fall days. That means that when we have one or more of them (we’re on our third in a row now), we need to take time then and there to thank God for providing it for us. So here it is: I’m thankful for this rare jewel of a day.

I’m thankful because the sunny weather makes life without a clothes dryer easier to take. (The new one arrives on Saturday…or so they say.)

I’m thankful because the good weather has given me time to finish up some of the outdoor painting jobs I didn’t manage to fit in during the busy summer.

I’m thankful for the potatoes and carrots and cabbage from the garden.

I’m thankful for the cheap but tasty apples I used to make the jars of applesauce boiling in the boiling water bath as I write. (It has four more minutes on the timer, I’m told.)

There’s something about fall that makes me notice God’s every day provisions for his creatures. It’s a good season for thanksgiving.

On Thursdays throughout this year, I plan to post a few thoughts of thanksgiving along with Kim at the Upward Call and others. Why don’t you participate by posting your thanksgiving each week, too? It’ll be an encouragement to you and to others, I promise.

Round the Sphere Again: These Get a Ditto from Me

Nothing Negative?
I’ve thought about writing on the subject of book reviews here on the blog and why I almost always think highly of the books I review. But today John Bird wrote on this subject so I don’t have to.

Things are pretty much the same here at this blog, book review-wise, and for pretty much the same reasons. Mostly, it’s that for me, reading and blogging are two hobbies among many*, and I haven’t time to waste, so I’m very careful what books I request for review.

I do try to mention anything in the books that I think some of my frequent readers may have issues with—even if those same things don’t bother me—because I’d feel bad if someone spent good money on a book at my recommendation and then ended up hated it.

Oh Andrée!
Andrée Seu is the only writer at World Magazine that I have on my feed reader. I really, really like her because she’s an excellent writer, she’s been widowed, too, and she writes frequently on suffering in the light of God’s sovereignty. Last night I read her article on Glen Beck and felt a little sick. I wouldn’t have written here about it—writing about these kind of things isn’t my cup of tea—but I’m sure glad Justin Taylor did.

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*Like making jam, for instance. Did I tell you that the raspberry-peach jam I made last week is the best jam I’ve tasted in my whole life? It makes me want to turn all those bags of raspberries in the freezer into jam while there are still fresh peaches to be had.