Formations 4: Bookworm

Books:

Enlarge my world

Transport me through time and space

Resonate with my deepest desires

Challenge me to be a better person

Capture my thoughts with words

Open me to new ideas and cultures

Ground me to the earth

Entice me with images and ideas

Some become my best friends.

Books:

Whether it is chasing kites with Amir and Hassan

Or seeing Chona’s kindness on Chicken Hill

Maybe its noticing God’s gifts with Ann

Or awakening a passion for the marginalized

Perhaps it reminds of me of my one “wild and precious life”

Where I embrace the concept of “honorable harvest”

And focus on cultivating joy

From a wardrobe to the pig stall at a county fair

Some books have become my best friends.

Books:

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Berry Pickers: A Novel by Amanda Peters

One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

Start with Welcome by Bri Stensrud

House of Light by Mary Oliver

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Overflow: The Fine Art of Cultivating Joy in Sorrow by Meg Najera

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White