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Children of Pride
Taylor Smart has a pretty good life despite her mean teachers and snooty classmates. Of course, that is before she is kidnapped by the Fair Folk and whisked into a world she never dreamed could be real.
Apparently, the cuddly versions of those old faery tales don’t tell the whole story, and middle school never prepared Taylor for a world filled with bogeymen, trolls, dwarves, and spriggans. But that’s what she finds in the faery realm its inhabitants call the Wonder.
Taylor is thrown into a quest to discover her true identity guided by Danny Underhill, her erstwhile kidnapper. But will the shapeshifting trickster’s dark secrets spell her doom? And how will Taylor decide which world, fae or human, is truly her own?
Sunday Inspiration: Forgiveness
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
—Lewis Smedes
Sunday Inspiration: Tears
Pay attention to your tears. They tell you who you are.
—Frederick Buechner
Sunday Inspiration: Do What You Can
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
—Arthur Ashe
Sunday Inspiration: Anger
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
—Eckhart Tolle
Sunday Inspiration: Good Works
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
—Martin Luther
Sunday Inspiration: Clinging to Hate
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
—James Baldwin
Sunday Inspiration: Educating the Heart
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
—Nelson Mandela
Sunday Inspiration: Escapism
J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters—an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a solider is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible.”
—Stephen R. Lawhead
Sunday Inspiration: Being Wrong
Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.
—Verna Dozier
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