{"id":4175,"date":"2012-05-22T03:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2012-05-22T03:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T03:07:34","slug":"a-poetic-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/karenspearszacharias\/2012\/05\/22\/a-poetic-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poetic Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So I have this beautiful neice.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/41\/2012\/05\/Taylor2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4176\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/41\/2012\/05\/Taylor2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You know a girl is beautiful when she looks like this after a morning of fishing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Like her brothers and her father, Taylor loves to fish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/41\/2012\/05\/Taylor..jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4177\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/41\/2012\/05\/Taylor..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">She\u2019s pretty good at it, too, as you can see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Taylor would never tell you this but I\u2019m her favorite aunt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That\u2019s because the other thing Taylor loves to do is read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Taylor and I need a photo of us posing with our favorite books, since I don\u2019t share her passion for fishing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">My niece is a busy gal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">She works in one of those school districts in a farming community where all the kids are in the same classroom, the way they used to \u00a0be way back in yonder days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There are only a couple of teachers in the entire school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I almost never ever hear from Taylor during the school week. She\u2019s far too busy to be texting or calling her eccentric aunt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That\u2019s how she refers to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Not because I am, she insists. Just because she thinks it\u2019s fun to tell others I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I\u2019m not so sure I believe her. Taylor might be trying to spare my feelings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Although, I will say, Taylor\u2019s not much of one to hold back what she really thinks. She may have inherited that trait.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But because she is so busy, I was surprised last week when I received a text from Tay in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/41\/2012\/05\/IMG954571.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4178\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/41\/2012\/05\/IMG954571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"614\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I was even more surprised because in her text, Taylor was holding a copy of my book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Tay\u2019s note read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>My coworker brought this book in today sayin it was so good and I should read it. Hahaha. I was like \u00a0\u201cI have. That\u2019s my aunt!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Don\u2019t you love the way God conspires to delight us?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Taylor and I both were tickled by the whole experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It seems Taylor\u2019s co-worker is a big fan of \u00a0Ann Voskamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Like millions of others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aholyexperience.com\/2012\/05\/best-books-review-farm-on-friday\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ann Voskamp recommended A Silence of Mockingbirds<\/a>, the book club that Taylor\u2019s co-worker belongs to chose Silence as their book club read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I know what some of you are thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Totally random.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Not at all really.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That\u2019s what I call God\u2019s poetry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">When the seemingly random has been designed by a Creator for a greater purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A purpose we never imagined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The way Taylor never expected a co-worker to be recommending her own Aunt Karen\u2019s book to her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">All because a farmer\u2019s wife in Canada first suggested it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">God\u2019s Poetry, I say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have this beautiful neice. Taylor. You know a girl is beautiful when she looks like this after a morning of fishing. Like her brothers and her father, Taylor loves to fish. She\u2019s pretty good at it, too, as you can see. Taylor would never tell you this but I\u2019m her favorite aunt. 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