I knew I had a chance of finishing one of the short stories..so I started there and read GK Chesterton's "The Blue Cross". I am not much of a detective story fan, and yet I loved the writing of this little story with several little phrases making me stop and just roll them around on my tongue :)
- " Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea"
- " full of an accidental stillness."
- "there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss."
- "wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen."
What a way he has with words. Sitting in the big comfy chair with Jasper doing his homework in the chair next to me, the piped -in music suddenly stopped and there were no people walking by......"an accidental stillness".
I looked through the next few short story's and stopped at Shusako Endo's "The Final Martyrs". I first heard of Shusako Endo when I lived in Japan...and yet I had never read anything by him. This short story is graphic in some ways...torture of believers is graphic. The entire time I was wishing I could read it in his native Japanese.......I knew so much was lost in the translation.
On our way out of the store my eye was caught by a display in the religion section. The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning....another book I had heard of years ago and never read. I bought it :)
In looking at the first chapter a sentence stuck out to me "The institutional church has become a wounder of the healers rather than a healer of the wounded" I bought it for my dear husband, Anonimo, who I knew would find much to like in this book.
This same dear husband is working away at that stubborn clogged toilet. He has just gone by carrying a large bucket......we are hopeful that he will be successful.
A victim of circumstance ;)
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