For His Glory

About a month back, we listened to a lecture on Charles Haddon Spurgeon as part of our Humanities studies. Motivated by that lecture, I started reading a book of his lectures to his students. However, I didn’t get too far before I wanted to start underlining and marking the things that stood out… unfortunately I couldn’t do that because it wasn’t my book - it was the family’s.

So, I requested that for Christmas I wanted a book of Spurgeon - I didn’t really care what - just as long as it was by him and was my own (so I could mark in it).

Well, guess what I got? Something far better than I had hoped for!

My Dad got this for me - a beautiful, hard-bound 10 volume (5 book) set of Spurgeon’s sermons - in one of my favorite colors, no less. Furthermore, they are mine - which means I can make as many marks and highlight as many things as I want - with impunity.

I’ve already read one sermon and am looking forward to reading more…

Thanks Dad!

Galena

Merry Christmas!

I found this especially humorous because it gives me a clue on how guys view P&P.

Galena

Also from Today:

These are from today:

I believe these are from November/early December - the first few are when I was taking pictures for calendars which we put together for our relatives:

These are some of the pictures from our Thanksgiving English Country Dance (I think all the ones of people dancing were taken by my Dad):

My brother, Victor, and I bought a camera a couple months ago - a Nikon D40.
So, I’m finally getting around to post some of the pictures I’ve taken (pretty much all of the ones of me were taken by Lydia):

These particular ones are from October through the middle of November:

after being spoken to concerning a five-line sentence in her paper:

“An intellectual elite is defined by saying nothing in as many words as possible.”

(Oh, this was Lydia, in case anybody was unsure.)

I act for money, no other reason. Since I made my first picture in 1941, I haven’t done a thing worthwhile. I have never enjoyed making films, and I don’t like being a so-called film star. I haven’t the emotional make-up for it, nor the love of exhibitionism. I am much too shy. [I'd rather find] one good man I could love and marry and cook for and make a home for, who would stick around for the rest of my life. I never found him. If I had, I would have traded my career in a minute.
Ava Gardner, arguably one of the most beautiful and talented women to grace the “silver screen”, quoted in the Arizona Republic’s article on her death, January 27, 1990.

Taken from “Verses of Virtue” - compiled and edited by Elizabeth Beall Phillips