Trail Blazer: The Weekly Digest

Looking out the window....

More beauty from this week's walks in the neighborhood: 

Favorite quote(s) of the week... 

 

What drew you to Christ except Christ? What draws you to Him now except His own blessed self? If you have been drawn to the Christian religion by anything else, you will soon be drawn away from it, but Jesus has held you and will hold you even to the end. - Charles Spurgeon, Faith's Checkbook, p. 292. 

 

Do you find yourself cycling through stages in your relationship with the Lord? Have you listened to them?  Owned them?  Sought a love supreme?  Any Christian spirituality must begin with Christ--basking in his love for us and realizing that we can now love as he loves. - Robert Gelinas, Finding the Groove, p. 47. 

"What's in the satchel?" he [Judge Thatcher] asked.

 

"A few books.  I don't think you'll miss them."

 

"What books?"

 

"That's an interesting question." I [Jim] said.  "You surprise me.  A narrative of some slave--that's one of them.  It's never been opened, so I know you won't miss it.  I don't know why you have it.  Candide, something else by Voltaire, John Stuart Mill."

 

"My God, what in the world is going on?"

 

"Call it progress."  I said.  - Percival Everett, James:  A Novel, Part three, Chapter nine.

 

I'm thinking about...

 

The trail down from my apartment:  On one of my walks up Cedar Drive, I noticed a sign for the William Frederick Hayden Park.  Sometimes the fence to the trail is open, sometimes it isn't.  The trail is not paved like the Ladiga Trail back home, so I don't know exactly where the "park" part of this place is.  The view from the road gives the impression that it is a nice trail.  However, with it not being paved and the warning signs about wildlife, I'm not sure if I should even cross the fence line to explore.  If I had another person to go with (or at least borrow an intimidating dog from someone), I'd be game for the adventure.  

 

How would you handle this? 

 

What I've read since the last digest...

• James by Percival Everett ✮✮✮✮  
• You Have a Calling by Karen Swallow Prior ✮1/2 

I'm currently reading...

• Prayer:  Finding the Heart's True Home by Richard J. Foster
• Finding the Groove by Robert Gelinas
• Mansions of the Heart by R. Thomas Ashbrook 
• Streams of Living Water by Richard J. Foster 
• Faith's Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon

Recent blog posts...

• My First and Last words on the book James by Percival Everett here.
• My previous digest, "Fall in the Country'" is here.
  
• Puppy Power:  The Weekly Hodgepodge is here. 
• My "25 for 2025" challenge is here. (Updated regularly)
• My "I Can Only Blame MyShelf" reading challenge is here.  (Updated regularly). 

From the Workshop... 

October 4th was World Card Making Day.  I know I've already met my goal for sending 100 cards to Cards for Kindness, but the organization issued a challenge.  We were to make as many cards as we could on the 4th then send them in the following week.  They want to break the record for the most cards received in a week.  I took up the challenge and managed to make 23 cards in one day.  I was whupped by the end of the day, but it was so much fun.  We'll see if we broke the record.

 

I am thankful for...

• I'm thankful that I'm not having company this coming weekend.  My apartment looks like an okra patch right now.
• Good audiobook narrators.
• My occasional second cup of coffee.
• The lovely walks around the neighborhood.
• So far Colorado is having a real fall...so far.
• Friends who "get" me.