[ 🎄Christmas carol with lyrics] "Christmas Bells" -Henry Wadsworth Longf...

Longfellow Saw Something

 Father God, Abba Adonai, let me not despair although the temptation to it is strong and my heart laments the hardheartedness of humans.  (Dogs are nicer.)  Let me look to You, fixing my eyes on Jesus, and choose--*choose*--to know, to believe, that You are indeed alive and awake!

    The Wrong shall fail

        The Right prevail 

(Not the political right :) LOL)

I Heard the Bells

"Faith is the 

C.S. Lewis 2024

•  “If they are wrong, they need your prayers all the more, and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.”― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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11/23/2024

Tolkien 2024

* "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

11/23/2024

"It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would rather have stayed there in peace."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

(So appropriate in the divided times in which I live, when I do not understand the thoughts and decisions of many of my fellow humans, both of my faith and of my country.)

December 18, 2024

eucatastrophe
noun rare a sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending.


Abba, we need a eucatastrophe.  We really need a revival.  People's hearts, even in my own extended family, are SO hard.  I will listen to a recent podcast to help me to understanding this hardening.