(backtracking, day 9)

 

Picture by our amazing wedding photographers.
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Day 9
What was the best book you read in 2012, and why?

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 Mr. Husband and I had each table at our reception named

 for a character or moment 

in CS Lewis' Narnia books 

after I talked with one of my book-loving friends 

while having great lavender tea late

 in the summer... 

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As I was packing I re-read various Narnia book

s and both the magicians nephew and the last battle 

 reminded me and brought tears 

as I saw again the beauty and hope in the world in the long awaited ending 

when things are made right things 

are explained and the King of Glory comes

 Pascha but the greatest Pascha... 

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 I gave a set of these to one of my dear friends in Ottawa

 later yet that summer and told her she must read them for beauty...

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Everything in my life was shifting; 

I packed house moved prepared to become a wife 

did tons of wedding prep prayed 

had thoughtful parties

 and said many goodbyes

 without it meaning a last goodbye 

but knowing it was a goodbye 

I will only return for visits type of goodbye 

and reading these books reminded me of all that I have been given 

 and all that I will be given if I can stay strait on the road 

and look to Christ;
they also reminded me of the goodness in Mr. Husband 

who was then Orthoman 

as he loves these Narnian worlds as well.