February 18th's Book Beginnings, First Line Friday, and Friday 56

Welcome to Friday!  It's time for some weekly posts with Book Beginnings, First Line Friday, and Friday 56.

I'm taking a break from mysteries this week (shocking, I know), and instead featuring Singing in the Dark by Ginny Owens.

Ginny is a Christian singing, and this is a devotional subtitled Finding Hope in the Songs of Scripture.  I finished it earlier this week, and I really enjoyed it.  I read it straight through instead of using it as a devotional, but I plan to go back and revisit it at a slower pace soon.

Shall we get to it?  Here's how the book beginnings:

I was a senior in college when I first witnessed music bringing light into darkness.

Jumping ahead to page 56, we are looking at Moses as background for one of the songs he sang in the Scriptures:

I've often wondered what it must have been like for Moses, that prince, scholar, and bold proponent of justice turned outlaw turned shepherd.  He was probably resigned to the idea that he would spend the rest of his life sheep-tending in the desert.  But at eighty, at the point when most folds are slowing down, God came to Moses, singing of the detour that would become his new road.

I'll be reviewing this book next Thursday, so I hope you'll come back to see my full review.

In the meantime, have a great weekend, especially if you have a long weekend here in the US.  I'm happy to have President's Day off again this year.