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Summary: 19 Year old Finn just found her grandparents, the love of her life and started college. 

A couple weeks ago I went on cruise.  I did almost nothing except sit by the pool (or in the pool) and read.  Except for when I was sitting on our balcony reading. It was very nice.

I had decided before leaving that I just wanted to read fiction and relax.  So I loaded my kindle with about 75 fiction books and didn’t make a plan.

One of the books was The Summer I Learned to Dive.  I chose it primarily because I liked the cover.  It was a vacation and I was looking for beach reading.

The Summer I Learned to Dive told the story of how Finn found her grandparents, realized that all she had been preparing for was not really what she wanted to do with her life.  And she found Jesse, a boy of her dreams.

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Summary: A guide to the need and experience of what it means to be under spiritual direction.

After reading fictional account of spiritual direction in Susan Howatch’s Church of England series, I decided to read a non-fiction account of spiritual direction.

In Abba, Give Me a Word, Roger Owens, a pastor, gives an account of how he found a spiritual director, and how to be under spiritual direction and use that form of spiritual direction (sort of mentoring/counseling/friendship/accountability) to grow spiritually.

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Summary: Internal Church of England political intrigue from 1937.

This is another one of those books that someone recommended (Rhett Smith) and I bought, but then I waited 2 or 3 years to actually get around to reading, and then I absolutely loved.

I would chalk up the delay to divine intervention, but that is too strong.  The main character, Charles, is a professor of Theology at Cambridge and protégé of the Archbishop of Canterbury (head of Church of England.)  He is asked, very privately, by the Archbishop to go investigate Bishop Jardine.  Bishop Jardine has been publicly speaking out in favor of liberalizing the divorce laws and against the official teaching of the Church of England.

Charles is being sent to see if the rumors of Bishop Jardine being a womanizer have any truth.  Charles, with trepidation about undertaking the mission, goes and immediately falls for Jardine’s wife’s secretary  This leads to a myriad of issues, both with Charles’ official mission and his internal issues that the investigation dredges up.  Eventually, Charles breaks down and seeks the help of a spiritual director and Anglican monk, Jon Darrow.

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