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Kindling Imagination for Kingdom Anticipation

The Warren & The World Vol 13, Issue 9

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I’ve been listening to a podcast lately from friends of mine who bought a bookshop. Their stories of the community that is building around this small shop in a small city are encouraging and their love of books is a delight. I commend their podcast to you, but even more, I commend the act of making space for people to connect in real-time in real, human form.

Around the Web

Birds of a Feather: Bird Books for Kids

Betsy at Redeemed Reader has some great books for the bird lover in your house.

  • Do you have a young bird lover in your house? A bird nerd who, at age 10, can tell you all the migratory species that pass over your house each year in each month? Every type of sparrow flitting about outside?
    Whether you have a bird lover or not, the books below are worth checking out. Bird-watching is addictive, especially for children, so be fore-warned!
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God’s Faithfulness in a Winter Season: The Gift of Wellness

Marissa Henley reminds us of God’s faithfulness even in the hard times. 

  • “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.” (Habakkuk 3:17-18)
    In part one of this series, I shared my experience of battling a rare form of cancer as a young mom and how I saw God’s faithfulness on display. As we continue to consider Habakkuk 3 and God’s gifts of faithfulness in suffering, let’s focus on God’s gift of wellness in our winter seasons. When I talk about God’s gift of wellness, I don’t mean physical health or personal safety. We may not always have those things, but we can have a wellness in our souls because of the unshakeable promises and presence of our heavenly Father.
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Intentionally Common

Selah Bell explores the gift of commonplace journaling.

  • My whole life, I’ve lived as a note-taker. In math classes I would fill entire binders each semester, the notes app on my phone is in a constant jumble, and I have amassed more notebooks than you would believe. Given my notes obsession it’s a little strange that I’ve never been able to keep up with journaling. I’m not even sure I want to know how many journals or diaries I’ve started and abandoned in my relatively short lifetime. I love writing and know that journaling is supposed to be good for you, but for me, it gets boring after a bit, and I feel kind of silly writing about myself.
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The Enemy’s Daughter by Anne Blankman

Janie at Redeemed Reader reviews a middle grade novel.

  • Marta Pfaffenbach and her father are steaming to disaster. Papa understood that booking passage from New York to Europe in the midst of a war was risky, but a family crisis is calling them back to Germany. He and Marta are traveling under false papers lest their presence on a British ship arouse suspicion. Caution falls by the wayside, though, when the Lusitania is struck by a German torpedo and quickly sinks. Thrown into the icy water, Marta is separated from her father and would have drowned if helping hands had not pulled her aboard an inflatable raft. 
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Around the Warren

Anne of Green Gables— Shaping Me

Anne is having a bit of a moment on social media right now, and it’s been so fun to read the responses of adults who loved her when they were younger to those who are reading her for the first time. But today, we’ve got something even more special: a young writer who is being shaped by Anne as she grows. Keziah Khoo shares her experience.

  • Anne of Green Gables has always held a special place in my heart since my mother first read an abridged version to me about five years ago, when I was six.
    At age eight, I borrowed the original from the library and delved into the charming classic, finishing it in a day. The text was rather complicated for me then, but the beautiful prose and living characters kept me turning page after page. I laughed and sighed at Anne’s antics, imagining myself in Avonlea, immersed in this captivating world envisioned by L. M. Montgomery.
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Joni Eareckson Tada

Théa Rosenberg shares her thoughts on picture book biographies and imagining adulthood.

  • When our kids were little, I found it hard to imagine them as big kids, let alone teens or—gasp!—adults. But they’re prone to point out things like, oh, that our second-born daughter will be old enough to vote in the next presidential election, or that when our youngest is thirteen, we may only have two daughters living at home. A silence drops upon us when someone does math like that, and the years feel suddenly so swift and short.
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Something to Do with Your Kids

Looking for some springy-Eastery crafts? Try these tissue paper nests for decór and holding Easter eggs!

Something to Watch

Have you ever been to a 700-year-old restaurant? The guys from Jolly went a few years ago.

Thanks for reading. We’re on your side. 

–The Story Warren Team

Carolyn Clare Givens
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