Delight in What Used to Bore Me
Delight in What Used to Bore Me

Author: Christopher St. Leger

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578693767

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Painting prolifically for nearly three decades, artist Christopher St. Leger has created a luminescent body of work that exhibits an artist's evolving mastery of light and mood. The resulting collection is a journey through places that somehow exist in both familiarity and ambiguity.Warm watercolor and oil vignettes that extract wonder from the mundane; that summon majesty from the ordinary. Beautiful moments that reveal the tension in the ostensibly serene; that miraculously invoke the ephemeral to stand still. St. Leger's work also displays an artist's thoughtful command of craft and persistent preoccupation with dimension and place. Each image is a study of technical dimensions - the measurable extent of how something is defined in relation to physical space, but also existential dimensions - the unspoken depth of the moment at hand. And each image is a philosophical survey of place - a personal voyage through the everyday places that exist around us, but also a deeply personal journey seeking to understand his own place in the world. More so, by surveying St. Leger's entirety of work, we come to understand how joyful and essential he has deemed the act of painting. We discover a self-taught artist deeply loyal to his creative calling and stringently dedicated to practicing his craft. Highlighted in the following pages is the result of that dedication. A collection that not only reveals St. Leger's impressive creative and technical evolutions, but also his subtle internal evolutions that resonate deeply with those who engage with his work.

The Book of (More) Delights
The Book of (More) Delights

Author: Ross Gay

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1643755471

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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

His Spirit's Whisperings
His Spirit's Whisperings

Author: Lei Loni Rodrigues-Bush

Publisher: Lei Loni Bush

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0982501005

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His Spirit's Whisperings was birthed, formed and fashioned over one woman's 30-year journey through a tumultuous and emotionally damaged life. You'll find His Spirit's Whisperings open, transparent and truthful - agonizingly honest at times. #13; #13; You'll discover that through all of life's trials and afflictions, supernatural peace can be found.#13; #13; God's Holy Spirit will draw you near as you open yourself to the truth of your life - admitting it before God. And though circumstances and situations are not always dismissed, there is always the absolute assurance God's faithfulness to you as He leads you through the crucible of life, giving assurance that when you've gone through the fire, you will come out shining like gold.#13; #13; Allow the Holy Spirit to draw you near speaking healing words of wisdom, comfort and truth into your spirit.#13; #13; His Spirit's Whisperings is offered as an encouragement to quiet your spirit and to focus your mind on God. You'll find yourself inspired to greater devotion to God as you open your spirit, pondering the whisperings, songs of praise, devotionals and poetry included in this book.#13; #13; It is our prayer that His Spirit's Whisperings will lead you to a place of comfort and encouragement as you come face to face with the truth of your own life.

Walking With God
Walking With God

Author: Richard Baxter

Publisher: Gideon House Books

Published:

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1635871301

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What does walking with God truly mean? What does it look like in the life of an ordinary Christian? Puritan writer Richard Baxter provides an answer for us that is just as powerful and enlightening in our modern era as it was in the 17th century when he penned his words. Baxter, who himself was persecuted and spent time in prison for his beliefs, was intimately familiar with the great challenge of walking with God in a tumultuous world and in the midst of a generation that railed against God. Inscribed at the base of Baxter’s statue in Kidderminster, England are these words: “In a stormy and divided age he advocated unity and comprehension, pointing the way to ‘the eternal.’” Come learn from this great man of faith who walked with God.