![]() This distinction is important because human Gift-loves (those that already resemble God) can come to be mistaken for divine love. “Nearness” to God, on the other hand, is a spiritual quality that a person must actively seek. ![]() “Likeness” to God is something given, by virtue of the fact that human beings are God’s creatures. Lewis expands on the ideas of likeness and nearness to God-they aren’t the same thing. ![]() For one thing, human beings never lose their need for God, and this is the way God intends it to be. However, he soon realized that things are more complicated. Based on this distinction, Lewis planned to praise Gift-love and criticize Need-love. ![]() Therefore, he divided natural human loves into two types- Gift-love (which is God-like, because God is self-giving) and Need-love (which is unlike God, because God lacks nothing). When Lewis first set out to write about love, his thesis was “God is love” (as St. ![]()
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After that, she began teaching English, drama, and speech at one of the local high schools until she got married and gave birth to her first child. Before going on to become one of the popular authors of her time, Susan received her B.F.A from the Ohio University in theater arts. Susan was born on Decemin Cincinnati, Ohio, United States to her parents named Louesa Coate Titus and John Aller Titus. She is very well known for writing her novels based on the Romance and Literature & Fiction genres. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of the prominent authors of The United States who has written a number of highly successful novels in her writing career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what happens on Fire Island stays on Fire Island.especially when a smoldering attraction sparks into flames. It's just another form of acting, right? He doesn't expect his newest customer to be the cheery, overconfident sales associate he avoids like the plague at his day job. After Will Crossen was forced to put his theater major on hold in favor of two jobs to tackle his ailing mother's hospital bills, he tells himself becoming an escort isn't that big of a deal. That's when the idea of an escort comes in. When he's obligated to attend his best friend's engagement party on Fire Island, it dawns on him he's about to spend yet another weekend feeling totally invisible and alone among a swarm of gorgeous men. After an accident leaves him physically scarred and emotionally vulnerable, dating isn't in the cards, so he throws himself head-first into his retail job. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are several excellent scenes featuring Carter’s co-worker Bob, who pictures himself (groundlessly) as a modern Cyrano de Bergerac. Carter is adorably nerdy, and his earnest courtship of Mac is funny and sweet. To give the devil his due, parts of Vision in White are a lot of fun. He’s been carrying a torch for Mac since high school, and when his sister hires Vows to plan her wedding he decides it is finally time to make his move. Content with her job and trio of best friends (and traumatized by her absentee father and selfish mother), she’s never had a serious relationship, but English teacher Carter Maguire hopes to change that. ![]() Vision in White is the first book in a planned quartet featuring four childhood friends-Parker, Laurel, Emma, and Mac, the co-founders of Vows, a comprehensive wedding service. ![]() Roberts lost her massive fortune on the stock market, and needs to make a zillion dollars ASAP? (The short answers to these questions are: no, not really, and not that I know of.) I knew I’d regret buying this sucker, but I felt compelled to find out for myself*. What could possibly justify charging sixteen dollars for a paperback? Is there something special about the story itself? The way the book was made? Or has Ms. As everyone who reads the Wordcandy blog knows, we have serious problems with the price of Nora Roberts’s latest book, Vision in White. ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards a Newbery Honor and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight ![]() She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work. She has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin-selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. ![]() ![]() ![]() a tiny bit of actual fucking foundation for the next booksīasically Feyre and Rhys need to retire and let secondary characters finally have the spotlight.* The only POVs I genuinely enjoyed were Cassian’s and Nesta’s, which, surprise surprise, will be the focus of the next book.mate mate mate mate mate m a t e ma te ma t e mat e m ate mAtE mATe MATE matE M a te.somehow galaxies were involved in the sex scene and that’s not even the weirdest thing that’s ever happened in a sjm sex scene.one really long and really cringy sex scene.way too much internal monologue about who had fucked whom, where and in which position.me physically rolling my eyes every two pages.So let’s start by saying this book was almost entirely useless. IM FREEEEEE!!!!!!!! WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY FUCKING LIFE ✨ Hardcore SJM fans need not engage, kindly move along without reading this review.✨ ![]() ![]() We've learned that quiet isn't always peace, Where can we find light in this never-ending shade? Read a transcript of the full poem below. “It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.” But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal,” she explained to the New York Times. “In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. ![]() Gorman finished the poem, titled "The Hill We Climb," the night after pro-Trump rioters sieged the Capitol building earlier this month. But even amidst such fanfare, a relatively unknown figure managed to steal the show: Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate and the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. ![]() President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris's inauguration ceremony was a star-studded affair, with the likes of Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez stepping up to the mic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trump's now see-through wall makes the metaphor concrete: The U.S. needs to carefully control who crosses, while still keeping an eye on who is on the other side. ![]() and Mexico - and make Mexico pay for it - in order to more tightly control crossings between the two countries, the boundary line itself, walled or open, has become a hotly-debated point of interest throughout the country. Throughout the first year of Donald Trump's administration, part of that national story has been playing out through ICE raids, deportations and round-ups, and heated political standoffs over the fate of undocumented immigrants brought here as children. And since Trump began campaigning for president on the promise that he would build a wall along parts of the border between the U.S. ![]() How and why people come to the United States, what they do and how they are treated once they get here, and who they are allowed to become, is a cornerstone of the American story. ![]() |