"Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character.
Blessed is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul."

~Unknown

(very) sweet 16

Happy Birthday, Laura!

"Snowflakes are some of nature's most fragile things, but just look what happens when they stick together."

~Unknown

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

~Melody Beattie

For 2008...

To laugh often and much...
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...
To earn the appreciation of honest critics, endure the betrayal of false friends...
To appreciate beauty...
To find the best in others...
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition...
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...

this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For 2007...

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feist

I really love this CD. It's not even mine...Erica's the one who got it for Christmas. Thanks, David, for getting it for her. I'll try to remember to share it with her once in a while.

"... Jill said, 'I bet we sleep well tonight,' for it had been a full day.
Which just shows how little anyone knows what is going to happen to them next."

The Silver Chair

"God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."

Mere Christianity

"Peter held the door closed but did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never shut yourself up in a wardrobe."

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Merry Christmas!

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10,11

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Isaiah 9:6

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life."

John 3:16

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks incognito. And the incognito is not always had to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake."

Letters to Malcolm

"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."

More quotes from C.S. Lewis


"And that is why all religion is about absence. Because once the gods were there. And that is why all poetry and music strike us with this awful longing for what once was ours--because it begins in regions of the brain where once the gods made themselves heard."

S. Faulkes, Human Tissue, 453.

"I know now God why you utter No Answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away."

Till We Have Faces

"The point is that they are one more proof of how deeply, whether we like it or not, we believe in the Law of Nature. If we didn't believe in decent behaviour, why should we be so anxious to make excuses for not having behaved decently?"

More quotes from C.S. Lewis

conscience (noun)

1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action

2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual

3. an inhibiting sense of what is prudent

"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can`t really get rid of it."

More quotes from C.S. Lewis

"I love the empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours."

Letters to an American Lady

What makes leaves change color?

In case you wonder (or forgot what we learned in biology class)...here's the simple explanation for the colors of the autumn leaves.

Happy Halloween!

Word of the Day:

ensorcell \en-SOR-suhl\, transitive verb

To enchant; to bewitch.