It’s a beautiful Sunday morning on Emerald Isle, North Carolina.  After a week of hosting family it’s amazingly quiet.  Nothing stirred this morning but Marcia, me, and the dog.

While I’m here, in addition to doing some writing I brought along a couple of books to read.  One is Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris.  It’s a personal reflection, almost a memoir, about the words Christians toss around by a person who lost her faith and had to find it again.  Norris also wrote two bestsellers, The Cloister Walk and Dakota, some years ago.  If you’re looking for a book that touches on faith from an an unusual, even poetic, angle this is a good one.

The other book is And The Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini.  If you read and enjoyed his other novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, I suspect you’ll like this one as well.  I won’t give away the plot but the novel revolves around a family from Afghanistan and the challenges that come with growing up in that land.

Blessings to you on this Lord’s day.