"Who knows what you have spoken in the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink?"~ Grima Wormtongue ~The Two Towers (film version) So many of us are right there with Grima's slithering words to Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings. We're lying up at night, … Continue reading Yesterday’s Grief :: Reflections From A Coffee Shop Conversation
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Springtime Reflections
"Wrong will be right when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more;When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have Spring again." ~ CS Lewis ~The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe Saturday, I watched my neighbours unearth their … Continue reading Springtime Reflections
Photographs & Good-byes
"If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best." ~ Eleven ~ Doctor Who We stand in the airport, water in our eyes, hands raised in farewell, arms aching to hold them one last time. Staring through the glass windows, we watch their plane soar into the sky, wondering why miles have … Continue reading Photographs & Good-byes
Idolizing The Past aka Misplaced Nostalgia
"It is a dangerous thing to romanticise the past. To drag up old memories from the depths of our hearts and fashion them into something they're not. We built a mirage from a memory and knelt before it like a false god." ~ Beau Taplin "The joy of nostalgia is that you edit the past."~ … Continue reading Idolizing The Past aka Misplaced Nostalgia
The Christian INFJ | Part II
"I took it off. I did not want to carry it with me anymore." ~ Anonymous A year and a half ago, I wrote a post called The Christian INFJ | Part I. I always intended to come back and write a Part II but I really wanted to soak it in prayer and make … Continue reading The Christian INFJ | Part II
Relentless Goodness in 2020
"Grace will lead me home. Through every trial I have come; only Your grace will lead me home." ~ "Grace Will Lead Me Home" by David Dunn ~ It's been a beautiful fight, lovely humans. And it still is. Perhaps that seems like romanticizing hardship. Perhaps it seems like I'm glossing over all the horrible … Continue reading Relentless Goodness in 2020
We All Just Want To Be Remembered
"You will always be a critic and never an author and...and the world will forget that you ever even lived. But I...but I...no one will forget Jo March."~ Jo March | Little Women 2019 "I want to be great, or nothing."~ Amy March | Little Women 2019 We carve our names on trees and leave … Continue reading We All Just Want To Be Remembered
What Running Track Taught Me
"Though my training for this event is physical and mental, may it also serve to shape Christlike qualities in my spirit--yielding a greater fortitude, endurance, faith, focus, discipline, and intentionality in the ways I live my life in Your service and for Your glory, O God."~ "A Liturgy For Competitors" by Douglas McKelvey I woke … Continue reading What Running Track Taught Me
Growing Up, There Used To Be This Bridge…
"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different." ~ CS Lewis ~ Growing up, there used to be this bridge. It was when things were different. You know, people just drift apart sometimes. Sometimes there's bad blood and sometimes there's just distance. Maybe it's the distance … Continue reading Growing Up, There Used To Be This Bridge…
December :: The Stubbornness of Hope ::
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” ~ The American Crisis by Thomas Paine aka T Paine, as my history teacher used to call him ~ T Paine wrote those words in December 1776, when things were topsy-turvy in our nation; it’s December 2020 and stuff’s still up in the air.These are the times … Continue reading December :: The Stubbornness of Hope ::
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