In 1986 Queen Elizabeth asked Reverend Mayne to become Dean of Westminster Cathedral, where he served until 1996. This Sunrise of Wonder is a joyous autobiography written for his grandchildren about what it means to be human in a world […]
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The Cost of Discipleship
The Cost of Discipleship deeply influenced Betty and gave her courage in her darkest days. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologian, wrote it in the 1930s to examine the intense struggle and serious implications of true belief in Christ. In […]
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Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century anchoress who lived in England during the Black Plague in Europe. At the age of thirty, she received sixteen revelations from God and then spent the rest of her life getting them down on […]
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My Utmost For His Highest
A friend had given Oswald Chamber’s daily devotional, My Utmost for His Highest, to Betty for Christmas. She sat in the bay window of her home, turning the little book over and over, just looking at it and feeling the soft […]
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Gift from the Sea
In her mid-thirties, Betty struggled to keep her head above water when she found an unlikely friend who gave her a little hope that things could be different. Popular author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, became […]
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The Greatest Thing in the World
During a tremendously dark time in her life, Betty was given an ever-so-thin thread of hope to hold onto in the form of a tiny book called, The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond. As broken and fragmented as […]
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Contemplative Prayer
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was an American Trappist monk, a comparative religion scholar, priest, poet, mystic, and prolific author whose book, Contemplative Prayer, aroused enormous new interest in that form of prayer. Contemplation is essentially a listening in silence, an expectancy. […]
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Rubber Band Books
God graciously taught Betty through the books He brought into her life over the years. Every summer, she would take one to the mountain with her and read it over and over and over until she could grasp what God […]
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