marvelous thing #1
today has been a beautiful, exciting, peaceful, relaxing day (for me, at least). it has rained a great deal of the day. i got to putter around a craft store with my mum. i got to sing songs to a beautiful Person with three amazingly talented people in rehearsal for the worship through music time … Read more
“the Christian pleasure was poetic”
“i had often called myself an optimist, to avoid the too evident blasphemy of pessimism. but all the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit into the world. the Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do … Read more
summer’s coming, winter’s running …
song for the day: “summer’s coming” by sean watkins, from the album blinders on it’s still spring — a fact about which a friend and i were arguing the other day. but the days are getting longer, the air is heating up, the bugs are coming out, and vegetables other than cabbages are being harvested. … Read more
