“Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did no...
I read this book in one sitting, and it lifted my spirits with a reminder that there is kindness in the world if we choose to be kind. Highly recommended to readers who enjoy Christmas-themed stories with a paranormal twist and prayers answered. *** Sesi says goodbye to Granny by Robbie...
“In our shortlist meeting we reluctantly set out to eliminate five books from the longlist of ten. It turned out that every book on the longlist was a serious shortlist candidate for at least one jury member. But in the end there were exactly five books that all five of us wanted on...
“Don’t feel bad,” I murmur. “You gave it your best shot, but I’m not going down.” She howls and bangs her head on the table as I slip out to the larger world. “We’ll meet again tonight,” I add, leaving her to finish her own vicious meal. The heat of the day engu...
Longstanding pals, they sat in the back pew on Sunday, devoutly saying their prayers. They were doing a great job for their community all those years. A few Sundays prior, their religious leader had been preaching to the converted and the choir. The message in his sermon had been focused ...
Following an unscheduled soak in the village duck pond, she meets Sylvia, who runs the nearby Duck Pond Café. Renting the little flat above the café seems like the answer to Ellie’s prayers. It’s only for six months, which will give her time to sort out her life, far away from ...
They said their prayers and turned in as usual. Lilia was afforded the benefit of keeping whatever book she was reading in her room, so long as she asked. During her prayers that night, Lilia asked the Lord to bless all those she knew, thanked Him for all the blessings she could consid...
So it should come as no surprise, I suppose, that on this Thanksgiving Eve especially I am overcome with it. I fail miserably to find a word that fully expresses the depth of my emotion, so inevitably the same word emerges time and time again…gratitude. Plain and simple. ...
These monasteries were safe and walled off much like manors and provided important services (crops, prayers, the selling of indulgences, and the copying of books) to lords, vassals, and serfs. Many of these monks were the “less athletic” sons of wealthy landowners, other clergy members, ...
Shinka is a decentralized religion grounded in ancient folklore traditionally, without a unified canon or common prayers well known by all believers as in the Abrahamic faiths, but the imperial state desired to make it a formalized religion and sought ways to teach it as a common faith, and ...