Word Fun

• catboat > batcoat
• My fish is dead! > My dish is fed!
• It’s right under your nose > It’s night under your rose!

• derangement > regeneration
• de-gen-rate-shun > regeneration
• special-mins > specimens
• surgeon > sturgeon
• monkey business > money business

• honorable > noble
• feast > eat
• precipitation > rain
• respite > rest

• cinnamon synonym
• red leather yellow leather
• irish wrist watch

• CHAPTER 3 Nightmare – p. 16
  “… night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”
  King Lear – Act 3 – Scene 4
• CHAPTER 14 Offer – p. 55
  “Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything.”
  Julius Caesar 1599- A3, Sc 2, Ln271
• CHAPTER 42 Gemma – p. 172
  “Heaven help him!” (Gemma: “Heaven help me!”)
  King Lear (3.7.128 – 3^rd Servant)
• CHAPTER 45 Hotel Goodbye – p. 190
  “Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts!”
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus: Here come the lovers full of joy and mirth.)
• CHAPTER 58 Ready – p. 207
  “Thy heaven is on earth; thine eyes and thoughts beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart.”
  Henry VI – Part 2 (2.1.19) Act 2 Scene 1 – the Cardinal
• CHAPTER 70 Lyla’s Key – p. 253
  “Now go we in content, to liberty, and not to banishment.”
  As You Like It (I, Iii, 139-14 Celia)

• CHAPTER 15 Meetings – p. 58
  “God will provide.” Tilly looked at Jesse and smiled. “God is here, in his angels among us.”
• CHAPTER 18 Something Missing – p67
  “In Jeremiah, the Lord says, ‘I know the thoughts that I think toward you, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
  — Jeremiah 29:11
• CHAPTER 21 Letters – p. 67
  The scallop is the symbol of God’s protection.
• CHAPTER 22 Change – p. 81
  “Be transformed … by the good will of God.”
  — Romans 12.2
• CHAPTER 35 Ask – p. 129
  “God says, Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
  — Matthew 7:7
• CHAPTER 38 Better and Worse – p. 139
  “Jeremiah says: ‘… the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy! Praise God!”
  — Jeremiah 33:11
• CHAPTER 42 Light and Dark – p. 152
  Tilly ranted at Gemma: “God has graced you with your wondrous, light-filled Jesse, and you treat him like a dark thorn in your side! All these miracles— from the flounder, to the hotel, to the telephone, and car—they are all because of Jesse’s Light. I haven’t seen anything like it in a long time.”
• CHAPTER 42 Light and Dark – p. 153
  “Corinthians has it just right:
  Love is patient and kind, not arrogant, insisting on having its own way. Love is not irritable or resentful, and it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the Truth.”
  — Corinthians 13: 4-13
• CHAPTER 44 Sent Home – p. 157
  Tilly put her hands on Jesse’s shoulders. “Yes. With no fear and no worry. ‘There shall no evil befall thee, for God shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.’”
  — Psalm 91
• CHAPTER 49 Gemma’s Light – p. 175
  The Chief shook his head. “Jesse’s done it again. How does he handle these impossible situations?”
  Tilly answered, “He doesn’t think they are impossible. He shines his Light. And God’s angels rush in to help him.”
• CHAPTER 51 A Love of My Own – p. 181
  Tilly beamed, “And, oh Jesse, I’m so glad you know that Love is the greatest thing! As John says in the Bible: ‘Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God … and God is Love.’”
  — John 4:7-10
• CHAPTER 51 A Love of My Own – p. 181
  “My other grandmother, Dearie, said that: God is love.” Jesse murmeled, “My Light … it is God.”
  “Yes, Jesse. In the Gospel of John, the Lord says, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
  — John 8:12
• CHAPTER 51 A Love of My Own – p. 183
  “Yes!” Tilly agreed. “It’s what love does! It says in Corinthians: “So now faith, hope, and love abide; but the greatest of these is love.”
  — Corinthians 13:13
• CHAPTER 63 Earl – p. 225
  Jesse ran to Tilly, and they clung to each other, as she whistered, “There shall no evil befall thee. God gives his angels charge over thee … God’s angels … over thee.” Again and again, she breathed the words of the Psalm …
  — Psalm 91
• CHAPTER 64 Connections – p. 229
  They sailed through the west bay and Tilly gazed at it all, murmeling from one of her favorite Psalms, “How majestic are the works of the Lord.”
  — Psalm 111
• CHAPTER 66 4th of July Clamming – p.236
  Margarethe continued. “Yah, ve are all free. On my long journey, vhen I valked, alone, out of Germany, avay from that evil, I never thought I vould be so blessed—vith no vorries… no fear. Ve have peace … and ve are free … here on this island … in this country.”
  Tilly smiled and added from her Bible, “Yes, here we have the shining city on the hill!”
  — Mathew 5:14 (Jesus Sermon on the Mount)
• CHAPTER 68 Carlyle Place – p. 243
  Tilly touched her cross and beamed at their anticipations with the Carlyles. She put her hands at their backs, saying, “Gemma, Jesse, see the land of your heart-visions. It is the land of your dreams and wishes. God will provide.” “I send you off with Genesis: “I will give you all the land which thou seeth.”
  — Genesis 13:15
• CHAPTER 72 Tilly and Ben – p. 257
  Ben sighed, “I’d best get the boys home to bed. We’ll see the fire- works from the ferry. But I owe you, Tilly!”
  “The Bible says we ‘owe no one anything, except to love each other.’”
  — Romans 13:8
• CHAPTER 73 Lights – p. 261
  From the Star Cupola, looking at the ocean of stars, Tilly breathed, “Such wonder!” And she reveled in one of her favorite Psalms from David: “‘The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.’”
  — Psalm 19:1 (of David)

Look with wonder at that which is before you.