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I've subscribed to WORLD magazine for a few years and mostly it's ok.... I'm mainly grateful to WORLD for introducing me to the writer Andree Seu and... her book Normal Kingdom Business.... The book is great. I think I'll order her other one too.

(via Emily) Link.

Andree Seu is a Christian essayist.... Her words in her book of essays, Normal Kingdom Business, in the essay, "Next Tuesday," have touched both of us this week. This is a shortened version of some of what she writes: "Starting next Tuesday I'm going to praise the Lord like gangbusters. That's when my meeting in Harrisburg is over and I can exhale. How wonderful it will be then, the white-knuckling behind me and the joy in Christ before me. For now, I need to worry.... So pray excuse me from the banquet of His joy: 'I have bought a field, and must go out and see it... I have bought five yokes of oxen and must go examine them.' No. This nonsense stops today. Not 'I'll rejoice someday,' but 'I'm rejoicing now.' Not, 'I will trust someday," but 'I am trusting now.'"

(via Phillip and Melissa's Blog) Link.

It is not unusual to learn of a reader's response to Andree's writings like the following:

This jumped out at me as I read Andree Seu's Won't Let You Go Unless You Bless Me last night:

"I have never met a feeling that wouldn't be a god if you let it. But here is no enduring stuff on which to build a life."

Thought provoking...

(via Becky) Link.

Do you have an Andree passage that makes you scratch your chin and say "Hm?"

Almost a year ago, author and blogger Mindy Withrow interviewed Andree Seu.

Have you been surprised in any way by the reception of your writing?
I have been surprised that people would read it, and grateful to God that some are occasionally encouraged by it. I should be dead, and instead he is using me, not treating me as my sins deserve.

Read the rest of the interview here.

One reader and blogger wants to know:

Have you purchased Andree Seu's book yet?... Mrs. Seu is simply one of the best writers I have ever read.

from Tara Barthel. Link