The amulet of the reverential is an ancient artifact believed to possess powerful spiritual energies. It is said to have been created by a revered mystic in a distant land, who infused it with blessings and prayers to protect its wearer from evil and bring good fortune. This amulet is revered and treasured by many cultures and religions around the world. Its exquisite design and intricate symbols make it a unique and highly sought-after item. It is often made from precious metals such as gold or silver and adorned with gemstones. According to the beliefs associated with the amulet of the reverential, wearing it close to the heart can bring about a sense of calmness and inner peace.

The Magic of Ordinary Days Quotes

We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel.

Thanks for telling us about the problem.

Return to Book Page

According to the beliefs associated with the amulet of the reverential, wearing it close to the heart can bring about a sense of calmness and inner peace. It is said to connect the wearer with their spirituality and help them tap into their higher consciousness. The amulet is believed to have the power to ward off negative energies and protect its wearer from harm.

Preview — The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel

“Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“I’ve often wondered, even to this day, why during painful times some people seem to step away from themselves and make decisions that fall far out of their usual line of character and behaviour. Perhaps a natural reluctance to sit still is central, or perhaps, like the lesser animals, instinct forces us to go on even if grief has left us not up to the task…. In one fleeting moment, I stripped away the petals of my future, let them catch wind, and fly away”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“He touched me as if I were the curved and delicate handle of a china cup, but he held me tightly just as I was, flesh and blood and full of human flaws and fears. In his arms I wasn't a girl dreaming of sailing the high seas, and I wasn't a farm kid jumping the train, either, but a fully grown woman riding the soft side of a crescent moon.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“Livy: Don’t you ever wonder what else is out there…beyond the farm?

Livy: Aren’t you curious how other people lived?

Ray: I enjoyed the drive, but i like coming back to my place. Sleeping on my land.

Livy: Your land. Ha! Seems every war in human history is about owning a land. I liked the Indian view that we’re just temporary guardians of the land where we lived.

Ray: It’s not temporary to me.

Livy: But your family just owned this land for less than a hundred years. In a span of a history that’s nothing.

Ray: In a span of a life…that’s near everything.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I’d closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“In the past, I would’ve listed things such as common interests, mutual attraction, worldliness, and higher education. My freedom above all else. If I had found love, it would have had to be the kind that overwhelmed and overpowered all else.

I passed a hand between Ray and Me. “Once you told me that this,” I said “is a beginning.” I searched his face. "But how do you know, Ray? How do you know it’s the beginning of something good?”

“I know.” His breath was warm on my face as he moved in closer.” Because someday, you’re bound to forgive yourself.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“We’d save up a penny or two, bring them down here, and set them on the tracks. When a train comes, it flattens out that penny, leaving it thin as paper and shaped long, like an egg. But it happens so fast, you can’t see where the train sends that penny flying… We’d look all around, in the sage brush and the prickly pear cactus, until we found them.. And you know what?”

He stopped walking and turned to gaze at me now. “We always found them closer than we thought.”

“After we’d looked all over Creation, we’d find them somewhere near the tracks, after all.”

He said, “Sometimes you do find what you’re looking for closer than you think.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“Words of kindness had always been more difficult for me to handle than harsh reprimands. Ever since I had been quite young, I could resist those who went against me, had been able to deny their opinions. My inner strength came from an ability to handle, then separate myself from, adversity. Compassion, however, brought up more raw emotion than judgments could ever stir.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“All over the world, people are looking at the same stars, the same moon, the same sun, every day. Somehow, I didn't feel so isolated when I thought of it that way.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“Rose spoke up softly beside me. 'It's how you handle the unfairness of life -that's what matters, I think.'. In this city of imprisonment, I had seen faith and optimism, strength and fortitude in the face of adversity.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“[Ray to Livvy] Aren't you used to people meaning what they say?”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“When I'd headed out here on my wedding day, I hadn't realized I'd bought a ticket to my own history, a different one from studying Akh-en-aten and Horizon-of-the-Aten, maybe, but a living, ongoing one.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“A classroom of students may read the same piece of poetry or the same passage in a novel, and each person may interpret it differently.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“At the university the professors who genuinely loved their subjects were always the most interesting teachers. Enthusiasm for a topic made it enticing to others.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“[Livvy and her father] Neither of us had been as strong as we'd wanted to be.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“[Livvy's Mom to her three daughters.] "Who better to tell my stories to than you girls?”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

“It’s how you handle the unfairness of life—that’s what matters most, I think.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The Magic of Ordinary Days

Poetics – magic of ordinary things

Hello everyone. Welcome to Poetics! Gina here ready to pour your drink of choice, be it a warm winter favourite or a cool calming beverage as you ponder over today’s prompt.

We approach the end of another year. For a lot of us it is time for reflection and writing resolutions. As we get busy with year-end festivities let us not forget the important things in life, the ordinary things. It is not the large events that inform us of the beauty of our lives, instead it is the magic of ordinary things that will do that.

I found this poem such a delight, the poet writes about the ordinary things in her daily life and gives each one such loving care.

It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?

I would also like to share an excerpt from Margaret Wise Brown’s little-known, Quiet Noisy Book. In this illustrated story a little dog named Muffin, who is awakened one night by “a very quiet noise.” You see Muffin “hears everything” and so he sets out to find the source of the quiet noise. She writes it with such lyrical prose.

Was it a little blue flower growing?
Was it a muse sighing?
Was it a cow putting on her petticoat?
Was it a fish breathing?
Was it a grasshopper sneezing?
It was a wheel turning halfway round.
It was an alarm clock springing to ring.
It was a butterfly unfolding his wings.
It was the milkman whispering to his horse.
It was a new leaf uncurling.
It was the flies opening their million-cornered eyes.
It was all the flowers blooming on that day.
It was the sound of an early bird catching a worm.
It was the sound of the dew rising up to the sun.
It was a balloon about to pop.
It was a man about to think.
It was a slow fig ripening.
It was the day.
It was a new day.

Aren’t those ordinary things made magical through a sensitive understanding of their presence in our lives? What do you hear, see or feel in your day or night?

So dear poets, think of ordinary items that have always held a fascination for you. Like a fork could be an elf’s hair comb or a leaf is a ladybird’s magic carpet. Like how a bird starts its flight with a tremble, or how a honey bee deliciously scans a flower.

Sometimes the ordinary thing can be so ordinary that we never notice it till it’s gone. And in our hustle and bustle world we forget how these ordinary things present themselves to make our lives a little easier and a lot happier.

So let’s appreciate the ordinary things today.

Today you are the creator, pick an ordinary everyday thing (or things!) and write it into something extra ordinary. May the end of year magic be your muse as you look at these ordinary things with new eyes and childlike wonder.

Turn it into something, magical, whimsical, or inspirational in the poem you will write. Describe its relationship with your world and how the magic of ordinary things has made your heart sing today.

And let Maria from The Sound of Music sing you some of her favourite ordinary things in this movie clip!

Once you have written your poem on your blog, link it up to Mr Linky below. Then have a walk through the poetry trail and read the other wonderful poets. Come back to visit as often as you can, the prompt is opened for a few days.

THE MAGIC OF ORDINARY DAYS

This is the first adult novel by an author who has written two well-received YA books. Livvy Dunne is a thoughtful 24-year-old with yearnings toward archeology, who in a rash moment in WWII Colorado becomes pregnant by a dashing officer and is forced into a marriage of convenience by her sternly puritanical minister father. She goes off to Ray Singleton's remote farm knowing nothing about him except that he is lonely, utterly inexperienced around women and touchingly devoted to her. The relationship between the two, graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right. She is also skilled at evoking the peculiar remoteness from the war of the high plains country, where farmers were regarded as an integral part of the war effort and even got enough gas to drive around for pleasure, a rare privilege in 1944. Lonesome Livvy yearns for more communicative companionship, however, and grows close to a pair of charming Nisei sisters at an internment camp—and this is where plot devices begin to play an unwarranted role. For Rose and Lorelei, it turns out, will do anything for love and involve Livvy in what develops into a dangerous (and inherently improbable) exercise in deceit and manipulation. The book recovers its stride for a poignant if rather hasty finish, but the calm spell cast by the tale of Livvy and Ray, which would have been perfectly satisfactory to maintain the book, has been broken. (July)

Reviewed on: 06/11/2001

Compact Disc - 978-1-7999-7907-4

Hardcover - 391 pages - 978-0-7862-3741-8

MP3 CD - 978-1-7999-7908-1

Open Ebook - 304 pages - 978-1-101-12112-2

Paperback - 304 pages - 978-0-14-311995-1

Paperback - 304 pages - 978-0-14-200090-8

Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 304 pages - 978-1-101-12258-7

• Amazon
• Apple Books
• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop
• Google
• IndieBound

In addition to its protective qualities, the amulet of the reverential is also said to bring good luck and prosperity. Many people wear it in hopes of attracting wealth and success into their lives. It is believed to have the ability to attract positive energies and open doors of opportunity. The symbolism behind the amulet is also significant. It often features religious symbols and sacred texts from various traditions, representing unity and connection with the divine. The amulet is seen as a physical manifestation of spirituality and acts as a constant reminder of one's faith. The popularity and belief in the power of the amulet of the reverential have made it a cherished possession for many individuals. It is often passed down from generation to generation, symbolizing the importance of spirituality in one's life. Whether worn as a fashion statement or for its spiritual significance, the amulet of the reverential continues to hold great meaning for those who believe in its powers..

Reviews for "The Role of the Amulet of the Reverential in Spiritual Practices"

1. Sarah - 2 stars - I found "Amulet of the reverential" to be extremely boring and slow-paced. The story seemed to drag on with very little happening, and I struggled to stay engaged. The characters were also quite dull and lacked any depth or development. Overall, I was disappointed and wouldn't recommend this book.

2. Michael - 1 star - I really didn't enjoy "Amulet of the reverential" at all. The writing style was choppy and awkward, making it difficult to follow the story. Additionally, I found the plot to be convoluted and confusing, with too many unnecessary subplots. The ending also felt rushed and unsatisfying. I regret spending my time on this book.

3. Emily - 2 stars - I had high hopes for "Amulet of the reverential" based on the reviews I read, but I was ultimately let down. The world-building was weak, leaving me with a lack of understanding and connection to the setting. The dialogue between characters felt forced and unnatural, making it hard to believe in their interactions. Overall, I didn't find this book enjoyable and would advise readers to skip it.

4. David - 3 stars - "Amulet of the reverential" was just okay for me. While the premise was intriguing, the execution fell flat. The pacing was inconsistent, with slow moments dragging on and action-packed scenes feeling rushed. The writing could also be overly descriptive at times, bogging down the story. I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it either.

5. Jennifer - 2 stars - I had a difficult time connecting with the characters in "Amulet of the reverential." They lacked depth and felt one-dimensional, making it hard to care about their fates. The plot also seemed predictable, with very few surprises or twists along the way. Overall, I was left feeling underwhelmed and uninterested in the story.

The Symbolism and Symbolic Meanings of the Amulet of the Reverential