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Reflections on Writing at the end of a long, long day

I have a question. How does one go about writing Christianly? Should one go about writing Christianly and what does that mean? I did a review lately on Gene Veith’s “Reading Between the Lines”.  He wrote that good Christian writing should reflect high aesthetic standards as well as sound biblical moral truths.  That sounds simple [...]

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Farming and Malaysia

One of my dreams is to  live on a farm : extensive grounds to ramble through, hosts of animals- goats, ponies, dogs, chickens- and a 40 minute radius away from everyone else. Now, this might some both idyllic and unfriendly. But it really is not. We live in the thick of suburbia, packed with houses, [...]

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Reflections

The first half of the year’s over . What a relief.  Between the frantic rushing from here to there, has been snatches of academics thrown in with half-caught moments of spontaneous learning: in between waiting for traffic lights to change, in between lesson preparations and pouring over books,  in between throwing food into the pan [...]

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The Terrible Plague by Joy, dd9

I Joy, dd9, wrote this piece for a writing assignment early this year.  I thought she had given some nifty descriptions of the situation, writing from a first person’s point of view. Well, enjoy! ” The Terrible Plague of London I wasn’t going to celebrate my birthday in 1665. My mind rang with the same [...]

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Folk Tale – by R S Thomas

Prayers like gravel flung  at the sky’s window, hoping to attract the loved one’s attention. But without visible plaits to let down for the believer to climb up, to what purpose open that casement? I would have refrained long since But that peering once Through my locked fingers I thought that I detected the movement [...]

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Book review: NINE JEWELS by Lydia K. Kristanto

Sometime ago, I learnt to distinguish between devotional times and devotional living. The writer who made this clear to me was Sally Clarkson, homeschooling  mother , writer and women’s groups’ speaker. She wrote that we are to ever live before God- being conscious of His presence as we go about our daily activities of working, [...]

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