April 2010
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I’ve just been down at the bay looking at the moonlight on the water. I think I will never in this world stop wanting to possess beauty—I mean not just to behold it, but to keep it, forever. Only in extinction or in heaven will I cease to dread loss.
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Where God is at work, the devil is not idle. When you try over a period to correct yourself on a particular point, do not be surprised if you have to submit to violent temptations on that very point, even to repeated falls. The important thing is never to admit that you are beaten. Fight…
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Don’t read them.
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Exquisite Japanese Madonnas. (Hat tip to Clare).
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Weekend Music The album from which this song is taken, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, totally rules, though it may not sound like much if you're not hearing it at decent volume through decent speakers or headphones. And this amateur video is good, and appropriate, and, I should warn you, possibly a…
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Is this funny or sad?
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That would be a charitable explanation for this bizarre statement: "Yet here [in the Catholic Church] is an ancient Christian church that deals in awful certainties when it comes to outright condemnation of sins like divorce, abortion, contraception, and homosexuality between consenting adults. For these offenses there is no forgiveness, and moral absolutism is invoked."…
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You’re perfectly welcome to laugh at me for this. But I’m always struck by the strange waste of flowers that bloom and fall to the ground within a day or two, quite possibly without anyone ever seeing them. I won’t say it strikes me as sad, exactly, but…it strikes me. This tree grows beside the…
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As I’ve no doubt said before here, I’m not the sort of person who feels that God is speaking directly to him very often. I have never heard anything like a physical voice that I thought was God’s, and there have only been a few times when something came to my mind with such force…
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Weekend Music I never really saw MTV very often in its heyday back in the 1980s, but somehow or other I happened to see this video a couple of times. The first time I thought that's pretty good. The second time I thought wow, that's great. On the strength of this song, I bought the…
Light On Dark Water 