Okay, this is going to seem like an abrupt departure, because I’ve been on a serious tack of late. But whenever Greg sends me anything that makes me laugh till I cry, I figure that I’m doing us hard-working Christians a favor by letting us lighten up.
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When praying with people, we sometimes have to pierce through with our prayer as if it were the hardest wall — human souls, hardened and petrified by earthly passions — to penetrate the Egyptian darkness, the darkness of passions and worldly attachments. This is why it is sometimes difficult to pray. The simpler the people […]

Finding out that there was an annotated “Wind in the Willows,” I just had to put it on my Christmas wish list. I had been assuming that even though other annotated classics have turned out to be disappointments, there was no way anyone could ruin “Wind in the Willows.” Right?
Wrong. But the book did give […]

Brief intro: A Facebook friend chided me for my blogging laxity (shout-out to C. Sue, who is stangely fond of getting mentioned in the blog) — and I told her I had been busy. That’s only partly true. I wrote this entry over a week ago, but for some dumb reason I decided it really […]

Well, if my New Year’s Resolution had started off with better church attendance, I’d have been thwarted right off the bat. More snow fell last night and this morning, and our intended trip to church became a very quick trip with a very slow U-turn in it. Not an entirely wasted effort, because if I […]