What’s on your nightstand?—December

On the 4th Tuesday of each month, Jennifer at 5 Minutes for Books asks, “What’s on your nightstand?”

 Finished from Nov’s list

• Spiritual Mothering   ★★★★☆
      Last sentence, p 187:
  “Will you make yourself available to God to be used to nurture another woman?”
     
  
• Acedia & Me  ★★☆☆☆  
      Last sentence:
  (? Already returned to library)
  
  
• Primal ★★★★☆
      Last sentence, p 171:
  “It’s an invitation to be part of a primal movement that traces its origins all the way back to ancient catacombs where our spiritual ancestors were martyred because they loved God more than they loved life. Amo Dei.”

 Continuing

• Charity and Its Fruits
      On p 100:
  “First, we are to do good both to the good and to the bad.”
  
  
• Redemption Accomplished and Applied
      On p 104:
  “We must not think of regeneration as something which can be abstracted from the saving exercises which are its effects.”
  
  
• Recalling the Hope of Glory
      On p 261:
  “Through music and singing God is exalted and glorified in ways that unembellished speech could not do, and in ways that are fitting for his holy and glorious nature.”

Started

• Life of Pi
      On p 80:
  “He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.”

Next

• The Language of Love and Respect 
      First sentence, p 1:
  “Ever since Love & Respect was published in the fall of 2004, we have received two kinds of responses: (1) Love & Respect hit a marital nerve as thousands of couples experienced significant breakthroughs in their marriages; (2) others still carry burdens as they struggle to get off what I call the Crazy Cycle and have a marriage God blesses.”
  
  
• Redeeming Love 
      First sentence, p 11:
  “Alex Stafford was just like Mama said.”

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What’s on your nightstand?