We’re on holiday now and here are some images from some parts of the holiday! I’ll post more and also do detailed posts later.
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In My Hands Today…
The Secret Magdalene – Ki Longfellow
Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.
After seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu’a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God; but Yeshu’a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision.
Poem: Hope
When life throws you a curveball, it is only hope that keeps our spirits alive.
Hope
When you are so sad and depressed,
When your world feels like it will end,
When you don’t want to leave your bed or room,
When you feel the world is against you.
Then like a little ray of hope, a small flicker which clears the gloom,
Like the flame of light that lights a room,
Like the tiny thread of happiness that clears your sense of doom.
The ray of hope that flows from the heart,
That which warms the ramparts of the heart.
That which makes the world a beautiful place,
That which makes your heart sing and lets it chase.
This is hope my friends, the emotion that lets life befriend
Hope that makes the world being something we can now comprehend
In My Hands Today…
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father’s closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
2017 Week 22 Update
The week started off on a very good note for me. It’s something I don’t want to share as yet, but once things get finalised, I will definitely share it here! Suffice to say, I have been quite happy this week.
We also finalised our holiday later this week. We’re going to one of our neighbours, to a place, I honestly never saw myself going for a holiday. So more posts on the holiday to look forward to.
The last week also seemed to go quite fast and in what seemed like the blink of an eye we’re almost halfway through 2017!
I’m really looking forward to this break, so more next week when I check in!
Have a wonderful week people!
