Maisie Prayed
April 2, 2018[…] while she sewed or baked. He helped her know when to turn her fields, and brought her news from town. His wife sent with him recipes and sometimes freshly baked pies or biscuits, so […]
[…] while she sewed or baked. He helped her know when to turn her fields, and brought her news from town. His wife sent with him recipes and sometimes freshly baked pies or biscuits, so […]
[…] of a thousand feet on the wet pavement of Liege. Feels strange to be thrown into a world you’re not part of; I look around me and can’t shake the feeling that we’re all […]
[…] and whose ideas they would think ir relevant to just about anything. I lived in a different world—a world without the Reader’s Digest, a world devoid of talk-show hosts, a world filled with grandiose ideas, […]
[…] cried and finally, in a tired and quiet voice, let the word “divorce” creep out into their world, Tim hung up the phone, scratched his belly, and went into the pantry. He for aged […]
[…] resurrected, she might want them back,” he explains cunningly. “Everyone gets resurrected at the end of the world, Dad said so.” Mum lets out a big puff of air. “That’s a long way off.” […]
[…] he was capable of writing. The scenes he presently looked upon, both inside and outside the bus—his world, the world of now—were an infinity away from the world that had inspired all those cowboy […]
[…] snowdrifts cling grimly to tree roots, to shaded ground, and even these are not long for the world. It’s warm for February. The Ranger leads the group into a dry, sunny clearing. He stops, […]
[…] 1820s. So much has changed in Palmyra since then, changes that cause Timothy to remember a Church News article about the most recent renovation of the building: an overhaul of the interior that, by […]
[…] that I would consider improvements if they existed in our American political life. Americans are among the world’s best educated peoples. And they are among the most politically naive. A peasant woman in India […]
[…] atmosphere of their times, the exciting experiences of Roberts’s insistent efforts to obtain a hearing at the World Parliament of Religions in 1893, of his temporary refusal to sign the “political manifesto” of 1896, […]