Journey:

You will be known forever by the tracks you leave. Native American Proverb

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. Psalm 90:12

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

"...the time of singing birds has come"

Song of Songs 2:11,12a " for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing birds has come."  Not quite!  The rains are still here! But the flower shoots are coming up and a few birds are starting their singing and I do trust in the changing of seasons!

This is the year that I plan to do more re-reading than new reads in hopes of deepening my life instead of just covering more to make it broader.  So I started off with George MacDonald's "There and Back."  Then I followed with "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte and then Lois Lowry's wonderful companion books of "The Giver," "Gathering Blue," "Messenger," and "Son" along with "Number the Stars."  I re-read the book I just finished in September, "The Soul of a Pilgrim" by Christine Valters Paintner on eight practices for the journey within.

Several new books were read these past few months.  "Strangers in High Places" by Michael Frome; a book of the Great Smoky Mountains which covered many subjects and aspects of the Smokies and the settlers, mountaineers and Cherokee Indians. Since the territory covered in the book included the Asheville NC side as well as the Knoxville, TN side and as I was familiar with both, it was rich reading for me .... all 400 pages! Another historical book I read was "From London to Appalachia" by Robert L. Breeding which was written for young adults and describes the day-to-day trials and troubles of the pioneers that settled in the Tennessee Valley around 1740 and includes the Cherokee Indian culture. 

I have been interested in Kateri Tekakwitha for quite some time. She was canonized on October 21, 2012. This book "Lily of the Mohawks, the Story of St. Kateri" by Emily Cavins tells the story of her path to sainthood as a Native American in New York and the Jesuit missionaries in the 1650's. Very inspiring!


















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