grace flows down: January 2008

1.18.2008

Definition of Mononucleosis

1. Mononucleosis, or "mono," is a contagious viral illness caused by the Epstein Barr virus that initially attacks the lymph nodes in the neck and throat.

2. My present state of being.

1.05.2008

Linking Lives Together

Once upon a September evening, a girl named Shannon met a boy named Jeff. She teaches piano and he studies the Bible. He also is an intern and hopes to get a job after graduation and ordination. They quickly fell in love and are getting married. God is so good and faithful!

thoughts and observations from everyday life

Name: Shannon Koons

Location: Lancaster, SC, United States

I am ... a misplaced Yankee living in a Southern society ... a Protestant Reformed Christian ... a newly married idealist facing reality

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Be occupied with a remembrance of His Passion, and make for yourself a dwelling place in His blessed wounds.

- Thomas a Kempis

We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are in fact, here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.

- Stranger Than Fiction

I should have made use of every opportunity to drop a tear into my glass, and then drain it to all that was sublime and beautiful.

-Dostoevsky

Freedom: The gift whereby you most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

-C.S. Lewis

Hello, from the world below. I'm watching the sun burning, As the road is slowly turning. Well I know, that in letting go, I'm learning how to live Through a life I have to give.

-Lifehouse

Jeff Schrage, my husband

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