Sunday Reading

Melody loves this book!

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The Little Boy down the Road is the first book I've read in one day in a while. It is a delightful windows into rich family life. I laughed until tears ran down my face at Buddy the Hampster's funeral...
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Dinah came back from the Tea Party energized. She says, "I've got to read more!"
The Creature from Jekyll Island was her first pick. G. Edward Griffin's story of our Federal Reserve shows that the Fed is neither Federal or a reserve. It is private and built on debt. Dinah says it reads like a novel.

5000 Year Leap hits Amazon's Bestseller List

The amazing effect of embracing the free enterprise system had on this country.

Dad read The 5000 Year Leap aloud during devotions when I was little (before age 10).

Sunday Reading

Perusing Leviticus

I am amazed at God's explicit instructions to avoid contagious disease

thousands of years before modern medicine.

Dinah says she does not like the title as she LOVES babies.

And a desire to avoid them is unwelcome in her future family!!

However, the book gives mothers many important bits of info

and gives me confidence in God's design.

My great-grandmother, gave birth to 17 children

but only 14 lived to adulthood.

one, a twin of Great Aunt Lillie, was still born and

and two died in infancy due to "milk sickness"

an apparent inability to digest cows milk.

Although I do not know Great-Grandma's situation fully,

I cannot help but think her babies would have been healthier

and spaced farther apart

if she had understood breastfeeding as a gift from God,

instead of embracing Victorian biases.

Home School Legal Defense founder Michael Farris

delves into a world under the UN treaty on the Rights of the Child

and it's impact on families, a community and a young attorney.

Sunday reading

"Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies’ heads. Wherever they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablish literacy and breathed new life into exhausted literary culture of Europe.

And that is how the Irish saved civilization."

Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role form the Fall of Rom e to the Rise of Medieval Europe -- page 196

God created the pysical world and called it "Good."

That includes money.

A forehead slapping book that I ought to re-read every year. Written from surveys of over 1000 men, Shaunti Feldhahn (along with her husband Jeff) explain what every wife and woman ought to understand about the men in their lives.