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Snow ~ What is your "Go-To" Book?

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One of my favorite scripture verses:

“In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold....”
(Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words, #3)

Always in my purse
And my car’s glove compartment
A book of prayers

My Go-To book is one that gives me comfort everyday of the year. One of the books is a Baha’i prayer book and the other is the Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah. There are other books, but those two I can carry in my purse or in the glove compartment of my car. Sometimes, I carry book of poems with me, as well. If I know that I am going to have to wait in a doctor’s office or some place else then I put a book of poems in my purse. I also carry a journal with me so that I can write lines to use in poems.

A book of scriptures
Or a book of poetry
Calm my frustration

I am not sure of the first book I every read, but I think it was poetry. I seem to remember a Mother Goose (not Mother Goose and Grimm), but a book of children’s poetry with a picture of Mother Goose on the front. I think the first poem I memorized had to do with a mouse running up a clock. I also memorized Mary had a Little Lamb.

Children’s poetry
A book of Mother Goose rhymes
Poetry is fun

Another thing I remember from my childhood was someone (either my mother or grandmother) reading the Bible to me. I enjoyed the Bible stories, especially the Psalms. The first sacred poem I memorized was Psalms 23. I still remember parts of the poetry I memorized as a child.

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