yet there is other news, which is good ... i have a part-time job at the local library! it is something i have always wanted to do ... and now that we live in town, i'm so close that it's an easy walk ... *smile* ... i only work 2 days one week and 3 days the next ... and the job ends in april, so i can still have our beautiful summers off ... i do feel blessed!
with that said, here is another from my archives - written in march of 2005 - at that time i didn't know that our cottage would be sold and that i would actually be working at the same library i love to visit ...
blessings to you, dear pilgrim pals! saija
thro'a glass darkly, March, 2005 archives :
yesterday i visited one of my favourite places in our quaint little town ... the public library ... i walked in and realized that even the air permeates books ... it enveloped me like the hug from a dear friend ...
my first stop was the "what’s new" shelf ... and i was tickled to see a Francine Rivers’ book, The Priest ... i picked it up and continued my perusal for things to read ...
this year i visit the library every 3 weeks ... last year i went on a weekly basis ... this year i usually pick up 4 books ... last year i would pick up 6 books ... this year i feel refreshed and at peace with my reading material ... last year i read and read and read, yet felt empty ...
so what is the difference? this year i am trying to feed my soul, not to titillate my senses ... i’m not saying that i am reading only study books or Christian novels ... but i am choosing the secular books with more care ...
last year i just wanted to escape my life in a novel ... which is a fine "vacation" occasionally, but definitely not as a steady diet ... i left the table hungrier than when i sat down!
yet somehow i didn’t want to "see" that all i needed was just a little bit of self-discipline in the area of books, and the Lord would bless my "little bit", a whole lot!
i think i’m a slow learner in some areas of my life ... but i am still teachable ... smile ... and i think it counts in God’s eyes ...
3 comments:
Oh Saija!!
Such good news like a dream come true that you will be working in a library with all of those books!
Work? Ha!! No way. Just like a little kid being hired to work in a candy store or a little bird to work in a bird feed shop!!
Still thinking about "Maria" though and that she gets the proper care that she needs at home. By the sounds of it she should still be in the hospital, eh?
Well you take care, and prayers all around for your sister and her husband and you and Leo..Love Terry
terry ... yes, the library job just seems to be the perfect amount to get out and be in the community! :o) ... thank you for continued prayer for maria and her husband ... the family is upset, since everyone is far enough away or they have their own family situations and can't go there for long periods of time ... sigh ... but God knows, cares and will somehow make a way ... blessings to you & bernie!
Dear Sija,
I'm praying for maria. God sees her needs, and she is dear to him. Hebr. 13:5
for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
These are the words written on the wallpaper over my head in my old bedroom in Sauda.
They have proved to be true.
I also love libraries. When moving to a new town I will always seek up the public library. I am satisfied to learn that Serina does the same.
My love to Leo and you from Felisol
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