SATURDAY SNIPPETS

Snippets are pithy grabbers of sorts . Bits and pieces. Concise. Big thoughts with few words. Poetry found in prose. Those are my definitions.

Merriam-Webster has its own. 

Definition of snippet 

: a small part, piece, or thing,  especially  : a brief quotable passage

We agree on the brief quotable passages. That's what this entry is to become---a repository for personal snippets that speak to me from books I read.

• In answer to her daughter Annie's question, "Why didn't I feel this before?", Lorraine said, 
• "Because we embrace out scars more than our healing." (Albom, M. the next person you meet in heaven, (p.149)
• Victor the stutterer---"True courage is having the strength to do the things that terrify you." (Vawter, V. Paperboy, CD chapter 1)
• But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. (1 Peter 4:15) Meddler jumped off the "evil" list and still has my attention!
• Sometimes bad people mess things up for the good people doing good. (Duncan, A. Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, Sanitation Strike of 1968, 2018, unpaged)

Even a snippet from a child's picture book can have me pause to ponder.

Book Reflections & reviews...........

12/11/13........With so-o-o many books available in so-o-o many formats, it's hard to choose ones that are worthy of one's limited time. "There is no end to books, and too much study will wear you out." (Ecclesiastes 12:12)
It's even harder to recommend a book because there's a responsibility that one feels. Yet, as any librarian knows, when trying to lead a patron to their next great read, much of it depends on the patron's preferences as well as their life views.
For me,  to answer the question, "what's a good "new" book to read?" I just tell what I've read lately and then usually add a few disclaimers with my "choice"rationale. I just finished a new "quick & easy read" book and it was what I needed as my life has been one of ups and downs lately, and I needed a quiet gentle book. I found a book that touched me in such a way.
What really sold me on Mitch Albom's, The First Phone Call From Heaven, an allegorical story that deals with the power of belief, was the acknowledgment from the author (p. 327)

Finally---and firstly----anything created by my heart or hand is from God, by God, through God and with God. We may not know the truth about phones and heaven, but we do know this: in time, He answers all calls, and He answered mine. (Mitch Albom)

That to me is an "A-men" review.