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Of course, I start with the Bible every day. Today's study was Passion 19 Day 9 on the YouVersion Bible app.

 

Happy birthday, Jessie!

 

1. The Book of Delights Ross Gay Fiction Essays

 

"...highlight the little miracles that happen all around us." -Today

Preface

xxiv

 

[patterns of passion

 

"delight muscle"

 

"Something that implies that the more you study delight, the more delight there is to study."

 

[acknowledgment of and gratitude to! delights]

2. He Saw That It Was Good Sho Baraka NF

Foreword

xi

by Chris Brousshard

[hip hop roots (on Lecrae's "Tha Church")]

"schooling" "with facts"

"his world"

"humility," not humiliation

[different kinds of stories

 

[Rooting ID in the right thing, "the Creator."]

 

"...how we rob ourselves and the world of beauty, joy, and wisdom...."

 "cultural conformity"

[integrating testimony into story and art

"...as well as the social implications that said freedom ["personal liberation that comes from the King"] is intended to have on our world; you know, justice, freedom, equality, compassion...."

"...the potency of art to celebrate and critique the Black (and other) condition[s]...."

"...cries for Biblical justice...."

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++GET UP!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

//Spirit Run Alvarez

//When Breath Becomes Air