I’ve been reading this biography of Spurgeon (did you know he was the eldest of seventeen children?!?), and I find that one passage has stuck unyieldingly in my head [chapter 1]: C. H. Spurgeon had been announced to preach at Haverhill in Suffolk, and–an exceptional incident–he was late in arriving. So his grandfather began the service and, when the expected…
Category: Musings
Halloween thoughts.
I have been thinking about why I like Halloween so much, especially since so many other Christians think it’s Satanic. But it’s probably my second-favorite holiday, after Christmas. It’s the most neighborly holiday we have. If Christmas is when we’re nice to strangers, Easter is when we go to church, and Thanksgiving is when we’re nice to family, then Halloween…
Bloggy thoughts & technicalities
The problem with being a certifiable nerd writing on what is mostly a “Mommy blog”Âť is that sometimes it’s really hard for me not to break out into talking about blog plugins and hacks and other nerdy things that nobody wants to read about. 🙂 But I’ve just switched back to WordPress–which was a thoroughly frustrating experience since I was…