Lingering Letters {color}
Today, for your reading pleasure, I have collected several takes on the idea of "color." I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
I hope that this weekend you have time to stop for a moment and think about the beauty and the color, the way you did when you were younger. I hope you bask in awe of a God who decided to create such a vivid cacophony upon which we may feast our eyes.
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A Cloud of Witnesses by Fiona Koefoed-Jespersen on SheLoves Magazine
Since I read this, I haven't been able to stop thinking about being a container of colored glass, through which Christ can be seen.
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Remembering Robert Farrar Capon by Rachel Marie Stone on Christianity Today
Why is this part of the "color" theme. I think you'll find this delightful tribute to Robert Farrar Capon colorful enough! (Rachel Marie Stone is the author of Eat with Joy, which I reviewed here, her writing is consistently wonderful.)
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11 Colors You've Probably Never Heard Of by Amanda Green (!) at Mental Floss
When I saw this title, I thought: "Did you ever hear of the color algae?" (If you know what this quote is from, you are my hero(ine).) This is a marvelously fun collection, and it got me thinking about more than just color.
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Little Did She Know...
My most popular post this week was When I Was on Fire, something I wrote, with great trepidation, about my time in the evangelical '90's. (I'll be writing more about the response to that post next week).
I also wrote a review of Addie Zierman's lovely, challenging book: When We Were on Fire and a bit of a different take on Single Minded Mondays with Bartimaeus and Me (in which I intersperse my story with his).
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I have not always loved poetry. In fact, in college, I was very much opposed to it. This changed a little when I discovered Billy Collins during sophomore year, and deepened when I took a class which allowed me to explore the boundaries of formal poetry on my own. However, I still think that I began loving poetry when I read 19 Varieties of Gazelle by Naomi Shihab Nye. In this gorgeous, heartrending collection of poems of the Middle East, there is so much emotion and history and color. Joy and pain mingle effortlessly. It's as if she's writing poetry with a paintbrush.
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