A Bibliophile,Photographer,& Homeschooler's Blog

The Shack

2009-01-20T07:38:00.000-08:00

Well I have joined the thousands of people who have read The Shack by William P. Young

I have to admit I was a little disappointed by it because my expectations were so high from all I had heard about it.

It is a wonderful story of a Man who has lost his little girl in a horrible nightmarish way and how God meets with him at his place of pain and finds healing.

I know a lot of Christians have freaked out over the fact that God is portrayed as a woman who listens to secular rock music in the book. Why is explained in the book and just to be fair, the way God was portrayed in Church when I was growing up was not very good either. God is over simplified in this story but I do believe that people can find healing and a closer relationship with God through reading this book, but I hope you don't stop there. Read the Bible and get the whole picture of who God is and enjoy getting to know Him.

http://theshackbook.com/

Signs and Seasons

2008-08-09T11:31:00.001-07:00

When I won my copy of Signs & Seasons from the Old School House I was excited. After looking through the book I am even more excited.
This is much different than the other star books on our shelves or the chapter in the textbooks that tell you dry numbers about how big the sun is and how many years it would take you to go to the planet Neptune. This book tells you how to find the stars how to keep time with the sky, how to follow the seasons with the stars. It has 7 chapters on everything you wanted to know about the night sky, a chapter about Calendars, and 40 pgs of field activities to do for each chapter. The first activity is to get 5 paving stones to build a backyard compass, (about 7.50$ at our local Lowe's Hardware.)I am already looking forward to doing this with my kids!
Oh! I should say that you do not need any fancy equipment to do the things in this book.
Very user friendly. The things we will do in this book will build memories that will last a life time.

A Must Read Series

2008-08-08T14:21:00.000-07:00

I just finished reading Restorer by Sharon Hinck. It is book one in the Restorer series & I can't wait to go get the 2nd book in the trilogy!
It is about a middle aged soccer mom, married about 20 yrs, 2 kids in highschool & 2 in grade school. She is struggling with feelingings of insignificance. Her husband builds her a room in the attic so she can have some quite time, and ends up falling into a portal to another world. Where she of course saves the day, while learning much about her faith in "the One". She helps save the people of the songs by by helping them remember the Songs of the One. Words in this world she falls into have an incredable affect in people. One of the enemies she has to fight poisons people with words and destroys them, and the only way to save them is with songs from the One.
It is a great allegory for how our words can and does affect people. There is much more to the book but I don't want to spoil it for you. If you have time for some reading this summer I highly recommend the Restorer Books!

PS they are published by NAV press.

08-08-08 & Dinosaurus

2008-08-08T13:06:00.000-07:00

In Honor of my little boy's 3rd Birthday today I am going to tell you about his favorite book.

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague

What book do I have to read everynight? What book do I have to read everyday? Two or 3 times everyday? How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night. I could quote it for you if you like.

How Do Dinosaurs Say good Night is a very cute book based on what else, but dinosaurs going to bed. Do they mope, do they moan, do they sulk do they sigh? Do they fall on top of thier covers and cry? Of course not! Dinosaurs are well behaved. There is a whole series of How Do Dinosaurs... books, and they are a lot of fun. The perfect books for the young dinosaur lover in your life.