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There were many things that gripped my heart this week while we were away. One, repeatedly, was the magnificence of the ocean. These lines from the song "Praise Adonai" kept running through my head...
"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."
--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it."--The Problem of Pain
"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
--The Problem of Pain (200)
"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ."
--Mere Christianity
And my personal favorite:
"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"
--The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Hmmm... it's been over a week since my last post. Thank you to those of you who checked in on me, knowing that I tend to 'hide' when I'm feeling down. It's been partly that (and unlike Eeyore, I try to keep a lid on spreading my gloom), and partly just being incredibly busy. But, all the busy-ness is making me nearly drool at the thought of our upcoming vacation in just over a week!!!! (The emotional 'downswing' is, as I'm finding often to be true, bringing more of my bad attitudes out for me to deal with...oh goody.) Anyway, I haven't fallen off the edge of the earth, I'm just trying to figure out how to do all I have to do and still maintain some form of sanity.