(more from Thomas Wolf’s “You Can’t Go Home Again”) “Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen. The voice of forest water in the night, a woman’s laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of … [Read more…]
“Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have been mad and drunken, furious and wild, filled with hatred and despair, and all the dark confusions of the soul – but so have we. You found the earth too great for your … [Read more…]
The truth of Christ may never be fully revealed to me. My rational mind may never fully comprehend what He truly is, but the irrational part of it completely holds firm to His life, purpose, and willingness to completely deny Himself and take up a cross. It is something that pulls at my heart every … [Read more…]
Meditation XVII by John Donne PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for … [Read more…]