Stepping heavenward blogs

My friend Simone has just started a new blog, which I shall watch with delight! I have also recently added Molly Piper's (well actually, I think it's their whole family's but her husband, Abraham, has an extra one, which I like too - but skip over his post on RSS feeds, helpful as it is, and read Molly's :)) to my list.

Her recent posts prompted me to order More Love to Thee, the biography of Elizabeth Prentiss, for my Mum for Mother's Day (even though Mum said me coming to visit was enough and what it's all about and I was going to stick to that - but tip: it's a lot cheaper from fishpond than elsewhere). The only problem with that is that I got one for me too (cause then the postage was free etc etc). What is a book lover to do? If you buy every book you want to read, well that's a lot of money spent on books (do the rest of you buy all the books you read I wonder?).

But Christian books are not so easy to come by second hand, and if you borrow them you can't scribble in them, and how good is a book you can't scribble in? ... Still, I am trying to tighten my book belt and stick to a monthly budget. But, I have actually always wanted to read the Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, put together by her husband, George Prentiss, which is not so easy to come by these days. The reason I have always wanted to read that book is - and I can't believe I haven't blogged about this before - that I absolutely love Stepping Heavenward. And as I wrote in Molly's comments, I cried on public transport, not once, but three times, reading that book (and I am just not especially the crying in public sort). But it is a special little book. Such a story of sanctification in progress I haven't read elsewhere, and it's written after the fashion of Anne of Green Gables (and you can get it super cheap from Koorong).

(This was supposed to be a largely computer-free evening too, but this is just a sort of half-post, which I have been fiddling with while I talked to my sister on the phone.)