“Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold toward you. But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present, with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some, who […]
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Quick Thought
MOMENT
The Universe is chaos—fire and emptiness, infinitely expanding into nothingness, or reversing and crashing in with equal speed toward self-destruction—and yet, there is an order and Wonder in it all. We can seek to explain the Universe’s reason as if knowledge of a mechanics gives meaning to the reason it is at all; […]
Short Story
AFTER HOPE
“…whatever a man loves, he desires its effect; and to this, by reason, he directs himself…The very delight of reason is, that from love it sees the effect in thought, not in the effect but before it, or not in the present but in the future. Hence, it is that man has what is called […]
Short Story
ANOTHER DAY
“The boy was young and had all his hopes, while Deets was older and had fewer. Newt sometimes asked so many questions that Deets had to laugh—he was like a cistern, from which questions flowed instead of water. Some Deets answered and some he didn’t. He didn’t tell Newt all he knew. He didn’t […]
Short Story
ETERNAL ROMANCE
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, […]
Short Story
HEART OVERFLOWING
They stood together in the current of the stream, sandaled feet on sand and pebble bed, waters running clear, cool, and pure from the flow of mountain springs—water purified through time, filtered through earth’s layers of stone and rock, slowly, and in finding vein and medium for release, rising in ebullition from earth’s perceived […]