Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: Accept No Substitutes: Earthly Appetites, Heavenly Bread, and Human Wholeness, for Sunday, 2 August 2009; book review: The Empty Nest; 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop by Karen Stabiner (2007); film review: I've Loved You So Long (2008, French); poem review: Good is the Flesh by Brian Wren.