When did I start complaining about the drudgery of hitting an estate sale?) So now that the chain stores are selling some pretty cute vintage inspired stuff, it's a chance to get the look without the endless searching at thrift stores, estate sales and yard sales. Plus it's hard to find this time of the year. Sure, it's fun to buy the real vintage stuff out in the wild, but that can get pretty darn expensive. The whole world knows how cool vintage Christmas decor is.Īs I was running around town trying to find matching Christmas jammies for the family, I noticed that stores are carrying more and more reproduction vintage Christmas decorations this year. No need to spend all your time scouring estate sales anymore to get the nostalgic vintage inspired Christmas look! Score! Find reproduction vintage Christmas decorations at the big chain stores.
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It is the object of one of our Lord’s own prayers: “ Father, glorify ( aorist imperative) Your Name!” (John 12:28). The glory of God is the first thing that God’s children should desire. By asking that they may be “ hallowed,” we mean that they may be made known and glorified. J C Ryle said "By the “ name of God we mean all those attributes through which He is revealed to us-His power, wisdom, holiness, justice, mercy and truth. For this reason we must study in depth the Names of God, not just knowing the Names "superficially" (e.g., knowing a specific title such as Jehovah Jireh, as excellent as that title is) but knowing His Names intimately, "Biblically" knowing how and why God chose to reveal them and what impact His self revelation had on the saints to whom they were revealed and continues to have on our lives today. And so by focusing on God's Great and Glorious Names is ever how we are to begin our prayers, our petitions, our supplications, our requests, our cries for assistance! And so we must know what God teaches about His Great Name. There it is! God's Name is to be hallowed, to be sanctified, to be consecrated, to be made (considered) holy, to be set apart (not just in our head but in our heart, in our lives of loving, Spirit filled/enabled obedience!). Jesus helps us put the importance of the knowledge of the Names of God in proper perspective, teaching us how we should begin our prayers in Mt 6:9KJV +… “When the hell were you going to tell me about our daughter?” He snatched his hand away from her, screwed on the lid to the empty bottle, placed it back in the cup holder and finally turned toward her, his green eyes dark and unfathomable. “Asher? Did you hear me? We’re on our way to a safe house.” She touched his cool hand. “Asher?” He seemed awake but was this some kind of suspended state of consciousness? She waited for several minutes that stretched into an eternity. Instead, he downed the water and gazed out the window. Paige waited for Asher to say more, maybe how he felt or what he thought happened to him. I was so worried about you, but I didn’t call 911 and we’re on our way to a safe house.” Does the Delta Force lieutenant have PTSD-or something more sinister? On the run, he must rely on Paige to dodge unknown assassins and help him regain his memory.but is the secret she keeps from him even more shocking? Now he doesn’t recognize Paige Sterling, the woman who claims to be his fiancée. A wounded soldier battles for total recall.Īmnesia has robbed Asher Knight of his memories of a fatal mission. Fast forward 70 years and meet Danielle Abrams, Benoit’s great niece. Even Eleanor Roosevelt, her patron, is unable to locate her. Her Jewish family living in German occupied France can’t contact her, her artist friends who include Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack, and Lee Krasner don’t know where to find her. Alizee is part of the project, and in 1940 she goes missing, never to be heard from again. The WPA wanted to combine the creativity of these artists with the values of the American people. They employed artists (over 10,000) to create art both as a relief effort and to create easel drawings, sculptures, paintings, murals and other artwork for non-federal municipal buildings. Interesting to me was that part of The New Deal and the WPA (Works Progress Administration) was the Federal Art Project. Alizee Benoit is a young artist in the 1940s. Shapiro has just come out with another fabulous art related novel. Poet and novelist Rooney ( O, Democracy! 2014) found sublime inspiration, thanks to a librarian friend, in real-life ad writer and poet Margaret Fishback. On this reckless odyssey, mink-clad Lillian is both embraced and accosted by strangers, all while contemplating the changes the years have brought to her and her beloved city. Now 85 and still venturing out on foot in all seasons and still in full possession of her gift for pithy, droll, and mischievous language (“Solutions of style have a greater moral force than those of obligation”), Lillian decides to celebrate 1984’s New Year’s Eve by dining as she does every year at a favorite restaurant, then walking through the city to attend a party to which she was invited by a young photographer she met in the park. One secret to her success was her love of New York City and her devotion to daily walks. Glamorous and ambitious Lillian Boxfish was celebrated in front-page articles in 1931 as “the highest paid advertising woman in America.” She was also famous for her best-selling books of wryly irreverent light verse. To Nor’s dismay, her future husband, Prince Ceren, is as forbidding and cold as his home-a castle carved into a mountain and devoid of sunlight. Then Zadie is gravely injured, and Nor is sent to Ilara in her place. But when a childhood accident left her with a permanent scar, it became clear that her identical twin sister, Zadie, would likely be chosen to marry the Crown Prince-while Nor remained behind, unable to ever set foot on land. Nor once dreamed of seeing the wondrous wealth and beauty of Ilara, the kingdom that’s ruled her village for as long as anyone can remember. But though every girl longs to be chosen as the next princess, the cost of becoming royalty is higher than any of them could ever imagine… Saturday, AugFresh Batch (August 25th – 31st) Posted by Giselleįresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.įor generations, the princes of Ilara have married the most beautiful maidens from the ocean village of Varenia. He later befriended the alien Mott, from the planet Hoople. He shot himself out of a cannon and an onlooker in the crowd shouted, "He's a Madman!" He was given the name "Madman" when chasing the evil Mr. He and his scientist friends get into many adventures but Frank prefers to spend time with his girlfriend Joe (short for Josephine). Modeling himself after his hero, Frank likes to try to get in the way when bad things happen to good people. Boiffard named Madman after his artistic and intellectual heroes, Frank Sinatra and Albert Einstein. He could not remember anything of his life save for his childhood hero, Mr. Boiffard managed to resurrect him with the side effects of super human agility and precognitive abilities. His body was found by a police officer friend of scientist Dr. The life of Madman prior to the car accident that "killed" him was unknown. The two main characters are from very different backgrounds, both with secrets of their own to boot. Set at the intersection of colonialization and cultural interaction, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night is about communication more than anything else. And fate has brought them together when Zen saved Lan’s life… Zen has access to a magic believed to be lost, rumoured to be drawn from demons – and highly forbidden by the Elantians. Lan used to have a different name – one given to her by her mother – but now goes by what the Elantian colonizers named her. An epic story in the crossover territory between YA and adult fantasy, strongly influenced by Zhao’s Chinese background and multicultural upbringing and full of immersive prose, this will whisk you away and immerse you completely.īoth Lan and Zen, the main characters are outsiders in their community. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night is the start of a new series by Amélie Wen Zhao. His works show the influence of both racial strains: the poetic mysticism which marks Celtic literature from the Arthurian romances to Chateaubriand and the earthy vigor of the peasant of Lorraine.Īlthough Hugo later claimed he descended from a family of the minor nobility, his father, General Joseph Léopold Hugo, was the son of a carpenter, and like many men of the Napoleonic era, he rose through valor and merit to power and influence in Napoleon's citizen army. Victor Hugo was horn on February 26, 1802, the son of a Breton mother and a father from northeastern France. Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book III, Chapters 10-12, Book IV. Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book II-Book III, Chapters 1-9.Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book I, Chapters 11-24.Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book I, Chapters 1-10.Part 2: Cosette: Book IV-Book V, Chapters 1-5. And she, in turn, has been touched and taught by them. So deeply has she touched the hearts of men and women during her years of ministry that she is known as the venerable "Double-old Grandmother" and "Tante" Corrie to them. And through her lifelong experiences, she has learned a few lessons in God's great classroom which she shares with the readers of Tramp For the Lord. In her own words: "My life had been given back as a gift.for a purpose."Īfter her release from the concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom set out to become what she calls a "tramp for the Lord," traveling around the world at the direction of God, proclaiming His message everywhere. Her brush with death lent a new meaning to her life. This remarkable woman of eighty-one years served time in a German concentration camp during World War II for the "crime" of hiding persecuted Jews and survived to tell the story in her best selling book, The Hiding Place. For the past twenty years Corrie ten Boom has crisscrossed the globe, slept in more than a thousand different beds, and lived out of suitcases.all to fulfill her God-given mission to tell people everywhere that Jesus Christ is reality, that He Lives, that He is Victor. |