Top 10 Best Books of 2019
Top 10 Best Books of 2019
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The beauty in reading isn’t in the stats or number of books/pages read. It’s always been in the beauty of the pages, in transformation, and in wonder. So whether you read one book or one hundred, I hope you found joy in your reading, and know that no matter how much or how little you read, the numbers don’t really matter.
This year I took some time to dive into stories about women in the Hebrew Bible in a series of… Read more Widow of Zarephath: Her Interaction with God and God’s love for Single Moms (Part Three)
A woman of valor is exactly how subsequent rabbis describe the Widow. And that is truly beautiful. They use Proverbs 31:20 to describe the Widow as a woman whose “hands are stretched out to the needy.”
It shows that God knew of and was aware of the Widow of Zarephath, her heart, her great potential for faith, her charity, and also her desperate situation. He knew her, a non-Israelite, a non-believer, and that’s important. He knew she needed help and designed a path for her to gain that help by helping others.
You are nothing. You are too much. Nobody wants to hear from you. Nothing you say matters. Nobody. Wants. To. Hear. From. You. It’s the harmony of different voices and different people over the years crystalizing into one overwhelming crescendo.
Stop! My internal scream leaves everything silent. My own thoughts deaden. The crescendo abruptly halts. I matter. My voice matters.
Hate and fear. One day, we’ll banish you. One day, we’ll eradicate you. One day, we’ll transcend you.
And the answer came like a small ember: I did love that broken, “hateable” version of myself. And yes I was worth loving even then. And I was more than that failure, even then, when I was in the middle of it.
This small ember of pure self-love was something I’d never had before. That ember has since grown into a roaring flame.
Excerpt: A lot of people have written about the implosion of Twitter. What strikes me the most is the forced expulsion.