In every man’s heart, there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty – Christopher Morley
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Words to Ponder
Refusing Despair
Refusing Despair Refusing Despair, we surrendered to Hope. We remembered and marked the disasters along the way. Returning to the forgotten, we nearly drowned for fear of the depths. But Faith carried us forward. We opened our eyes. We unstopped our ears. Truth showed us what we ignored, what we innocently witnessed. We learned life had always been…
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When a Fireball Lands in the Middle of Your Dreams
This is what happens when the fireball in the sky lands in your dream and you have to listen to its flames and have to make sense of the blazing language that climbs up on your tongue and starts it wagging. A light gets turned on. All those dark nights turn into summer and you begin to see why the…
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What Jonathan Edwards said is still true.
“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God…
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Growing up in a Hive
She grew up in a hive, a vast, endeavoring conglomeration that stretched from here to there and beyond. The scope of its distance was too far to see. The wealth of effort and sacrifice and unappreciated toil encompassed not only her lifetime but lifetimes before hers – each life, comparatively short., but the lifetimes together stretched into eons. The hive…
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Some Words about Abiding & Freedom
After it was over and they could talk about their freedom they said – well it’s not like what happened could be explained in concrete terms – no, not as if we’d timed it so we were able to observe something NOT ABSTRACT like the sudden appearance of smiling dolphins or anything as laughable as that – of course not…
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ON THE HUNT
On the Hunt He looked everywhere. He has looked to the skies, in nature, in power, in relationships, in success, in symbols and dreams and stories and song. Indeed, so fervent is he in his hunting he has almost silenced the small inner voice that has been trying to tell him all along what it is he’s hunting for. C.S….
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THIN PLACES
So I’ve been in an unpredictable frame of mind lately. Disappointed in myself. Lacking gratitude. Wanting more than I already have. More of what? That’s what gets confusing. Feeling like I need what I don’t already have but what is it I don’t have? I have everything. I have love, family, health. I’m afraid of being so serious I’ll scare…
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In The Thin Places
The In-Between
This is the edge of what is soon to be – an in-between place like a dock with sea warped boards jutting out across an eddy that might be salt water or it might be fresh. What I know is that the depths below are as descending as the sky is ascending. There is an absence of bottom here, a…
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Disturb Us.
Disturb us, Lord, when We are too pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst For the waters of life; Having fallen in love with life,…
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