Word Worship {L.M. Montgomery}

"Look at that sea, girls -- all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."

 L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Just a reminder in a season of coveting that we are better off feeling grateful for the things that cannot be bought; among them, family, friends, and kindred spirits.

Happy Holidays

Word Worship {Markus Zusak}

"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." 

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

What a beautiful way to describe a lifelong relationship with words. There are words that we hate to hear, and those that we love to read, and in the midst of it all we try our hardest to do right by our words. If you haven't yet read The Book Thief, I highly recommend it. It's one of those books that changes the way that you think about life and death -- one of those books that stays with you long after you've read it. 

Word Worship {Carlos Ruiz Zafón}

"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind 

Word Worship {Ishmael Beah}

I'll preface today's quote by saying: thank goodness for the written word. As I sit in my bedroom typing this to you, I am grateful for the power of words, for their ability to bring perspective directly into our hands and for their power to make our hearts feel more than would be possible without them. These words below are the words of a real person, who experienced real horrors that we cannot imagine; he thought to share them with us so that we may understand just a tiny piece of his heartbreak and his story. If you haven't yet read A Long Way Gone, I highly recommend it.

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"Some nights the skies wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them."

-Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 

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I'll be keeping these beautiful words in mind this weekend as I remind myself to move a bit more slowly, to sink into the comforts of a good book, and to express gratitude for many, many things in my life. 

Word Worship

Stars

Robert Frost

How countlessly they congregate

O'er our tumultuous snow,

Which flows in shapes as tall as trees

When wintry winds do blow!--

As if with keenness for our fate,

Our faltering few steps on

To white rest, and a place of rest

Invisible at dawn,--

And yet with neither love nor hate,

Those stars like some snow-white

Minerva's snow-white marble eyes

Without the gift of sight.