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Magic and the Lord of the Rings

Dec 3rd, 2012
by Annie Kate.
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I have issues with books involving magic.  Therefore I have issues with Tolkein, although my family and other people I respect and hang out with greatly admire him.  Miss 15 posted her thoughts recently in “Magic and The Lord of the Rings”  and I am convinced.  I think. So I may try Tolkein again.  But I must […]

How We Fall Into Sin

Nov 28th, 2012
by Annie Kate.
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We’re all confronted with sin, we all fall into it, and (hopefully) we all want to avoid it.  While studying Tolkein’s Fellowship of the Ring in Omnibus 2 we came across a simple description of the path into sin. Of course, I knew it all of this, but had never put it together logically before.  […]

Review: Tell Your Time by Amy Lynn Andrews

Nov 26th, 2012
by Annie Kate.
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Do you want to manage your time better?  Do you have dreams and hopes that keep getting put aside because you ‘just don’t have the time’?  Maybe you need to learn how to manage your time. In the past I read many of the time management books out there, one after the other.  Now I no […]

Our Annual Reading Week

Nov 19th, 2012
by Annie Kate.
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“Mama!  We have more than a hundred books waiting for us at the library,” announced  Miss 10 early this morning.  Mr. 17 looked up from the news on his cell phone, shocked.  It is, objectively-speaking, a large number of library books, but this is, after all, our annual Reading Week. What’s Reading Week?  Well, one week […]

Keeping the Home Fires Burning

Nov 7th, 2012
by Annie Kate.
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“Keep the home fires burning.”  That used to be just a saying to me.  For warmth, I would simply flick a switch or turn a knob.  Until we got a fireplace insert to heat our home.  Then I learned about the realities of waking up in a cold house and starting a fire, about kinds […]

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