The Anchoress

Karen Hall at Some Have Hats has included me in a meme. As regular readers know, I don’t participate in these often, mostly because I hate to think of five other bloggers to amuse/annoy with it (you never know who will write back saying, “you shouldn’t have…really…you shouldn’t have!”

But this meme is kind of quirky and cute, and since I happen to have a book - only one - at hand (I am at my “second” desk, which is the one I try to keep neat and uncluttered because it’s in the middle of the house) I feel like I can honestly play the game.

Karen spells out the rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

The book currently on my desk is here because I reviewed it (and liked it very much) this week, for the blog - it is Lourdes; Font of Faith, Hope and Charity by Elizabeth Ficocelli, with a forward by Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR.

Page 123 as per instructions:

As John recalls, the first miracle he experienced in Lourdes was his own self-revelation. “When you are born sick, you often have the opinion you are the only sick person in the world. In Lourdes, my eyes were opened.

Karen’s book was ummm…very different than mine.

This meme is very cool - I can’t wait to see how the Holy Spirit maneuvers around and uses this one.

I’m tagging: Julie at Happy Catholic, Deacon Greg Kandra, Amba, Cobb, and the Snarky Bastards.

You can play along too, if you like, leave your 123 in the comments section!