#transcendent kingdom

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"The truth is we don't know what we don't know. We don't even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears. We spend decades, centuries, millennia, trying to answer that one question so that another dim light will come on. That's science, but that's also everything else, isn't it?"

Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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On Wednesdays we *read* pink 💖

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett - 5/5 ⭐️

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - TBR

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas - 5/5 ⭐️

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue - 3/5 ⭐️

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - TBR

QOTD: What’s your first read of August?

AOTD: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 🔥

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“Healed, but in the way a broken bone that's healed still aches at the first signs of rain.”

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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my recent book reads

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‘The truth is we don't know what we don't know. We don't even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears.’ ~ Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Oh I know this book is going to hit right in the heart

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"Who we are is within ourselves.

Look BEYOND the VISIBLE"

My Edit of Emma D'Arcy. This piece is titled: look beyond the visible.

Who we are is not from the external; it is within us. All our emotions resides in our hearts-- philosophically within our souls.

Our society is in static--blocked in an era of unenlightenment. We are still transfixed, unable to move forward in time.

It only needs one person to remain steadfast in their belief despite the consequences of said stand. Emma D'Arcy is the beginning of change.

I applaud them loudly and I am in their corner. Let us lend Emma D'Arcy our strength to withstand the storm. It is boiling high.

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Thinking about Lazarus has always led me to think about what it means to be alive, what it means to participated in the world, to be awake. When I was a child, I wondered how long Lazarus lived after he died. Was he still among us now? An ancient, a vampire, the last remaining miracle? I wanted an entire book of the Bible to be devoted to him and to how he must have felt to be the recipient of God's strange and amazing grace. I wondered if he was the same man he was before he cheated death or if he was forever changed, and I wondered how long forever was to a man who had once been asleep.

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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New glasses, same bookish lady.

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Preparatory Work

So the world tells us about God, but on its own, it only tells us so much. Its existence speaks of the need for a transcendent creator. Its finite character, seen both through the expansion of the universe from a singularity in the past and the second law of thermodynamics telling us that it is slowly running down, speaks of its beginning at a point in time and its predictable end. The remarkable fine-tuning of the universe speaks strongly of an intelligent designer and the moral awareness that is provoked by our choices tells us that our deeds matter. The beauty of the world and our need for a sense of purpose testify to the intentionality of it all and convince us that this is no random, chance existence. Natural theology is disturbing and preparatory, teaching us fundamental truths about God, who then discloses himself in Christ to those who honestly seek him.

~ Peter May

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transcendent kingdom, yaa gyasi. (2020)

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Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom

I read the final pages of Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom, and I soiled one page with my teardrops. I couldn’t stop weeping.  For the life of me, the story of Nana, Gifty, The Black Mamba (the Mother), and Chin Chin Man (the Father) transported me into a world, though fiction, felt real. I was immersed in their lives, albeit tragic and heartbreaking, and even towards the middle of the book, I…

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Póster/Altérnate book cover i made for one of my favorite books <3

I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, there’s so much to work with in the book but all the official covers are fairly minimalist. Might end up doing some of the other designs I had in mind too cuz IM OBSESSED

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Title: Transcendent Kingdom | Author: Yaa Gyasi | Publisher: Vintage (2021)