There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
  - Pablo Picasso 

 
In all their distress, he too was distressed,
and the angel of his presence saved them.

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"Yes," said Digory.  He had had for a second some wild idea of saying "Ill try to help you if you'll promise to help about my Mother," but he realised in time that the Lion was not at all the sort of person one could try to make bargains with.  But when ( Read more... )

The Lord is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made. The Lord upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. ~ Psalm 145:13b-14
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For a good wife contains so many persons in herself.  What was H. not to me?  She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my ( Read more... )

Thinking about this especially as we've been moving buildings.  Wow it's a mess still and it's been stressful, but it's coming together and it's so nice now!  Much less stressful!  I'm really thankful.


Don't like subdivisions all that much, but it is an interesting picture... hmmm

Embracing the Mess

My wife and I run together through a new home ( Read more... )

Walter Kirn "chose to examine the evangelical Christian subculture from the perspective of an outsider.  For seven days Kirn immersed himself in the evangelical lifestyle.  He listened only to music by Christian artists, watched only Christian videos, and even began each day with a "holy workout" inspired by a Christian book."  ~ Nancy Beach, An ( Read more... )

Some more for the day:

Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. ~ Isaiah 64:4

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.  ~ Henry Adams

George Washington Carver:

"He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."

An Old Garden
Not one of the family had ever cared for it on the ground of its old-fashionedness; its preservation was owing merely to the fact that their gardener was blessed with a wholesome stupidity rendering him incapable of unlearning what his father, who had been gardener there before him, had had marvelous difficulty in teaching him.  We do ( Read more... )