A Boy From Lawrence: The Collected Writings of Eugene F. Connolly.A Boy From Lawrence: The Collected Writings of Eugene F. Connolly Sally A. Connolly, editor TypeStyles Desktop Publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, Services c/o Edwards Brothers Inc. PO Box 1007, Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. 48106-1007 www.freewebs.com/aboyfromlawrence (978) 774-8158 0977265315 $19.95 205 pages "A Boy From Lawrence" is a labor of love, containing the collected personal writings of former Professor Eugene Connolly, edited by his wife, Sally Connolly. "A Boy From Lawrence" is more than a collection of inspirational writings, poems , and quotations, it is the story of a soul's journey to God, in very humble language. The gentle narrative illumines the life and ways of a most remarkable man, of tangible goodness. Acceptance of loss, with a surety of grace, the theme of many pages is perhaps the ever present goodness of God. One of the most moving chapters is part of a section called "Let Evening Come," named after a poem by Jane Kenyon Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 - April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Life Kenyon was born in 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in the midwest. She earned a B.A. , who also died of cancer, like Eugene Connolly. Because it speaks to the heart, and because it was evidently important to Connolly, here is a part of it: Let the light of late afternoon shine though chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down. Let the cricket take up chafing chafe v. chafed, chaf·ing, chafes v.tr. 1. To wear away or irritate by rubbing. 2. To annoy; vex. 3. To warm by rubbing, as with the hands. v.intr. as a woman takes up her needles and her yarn. Let evening come. Let dew collect on the hoe hoe, usually a flat blade, variously shaped, set in a long wooden handle and used primarily for weeding and for loosening the soil. It was the first distinctly agricultural implement. The earliest hoes were forked sticks. abandoned in long grass. Let the stars appear and the moon disclose her silver horn. Let the fox go back to its sandy den. Let the wind die down. Let the shed go black inside. Let evening come. To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats oats, cereal plants of the genus Avena of the family Gramineae (grass family). Most species are annuals of moist temperate regions. The early history of oats is obscure, but domestication is considered to be recent compared to that of the other , to aid in the lung, let evening come. Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless Com´fort`less a. 1. Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through tyranny or might. - Spenser. When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly. - Milton. Adj. , so let evening come. (page 113) "A Boy From Lawrence" is filled with such treasures. It is a very uplifting meditation book, recommended for those in need of comfort, illumination, redirection, grace, or prayer. |
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