One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Sunday, May 31, 2020

In the day of trouble

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Via Alan Jacobs :  Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ours...

In the spirit of neighborliness

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O God, the Creator of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth; deliver them and us from ...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

"Make us wise..."

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MOST heartily do we thank Thee, O Lord, for all Thy mercies of every kind, and for Thy loving care over all Thy creatures. We bless Thee f...

Misfortune

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Re-posted because it's perfect:
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

"Once a thing is done..."

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Similar to an argument I would make to persuade 9 th graders of the value of studying history: ...[T]he future is imaginary, the present is...
Monday, May 25, 2020

"For I am a stranger...and a sojourner"

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Lord, let me know my end and the number of my days, that I may learn how short my life is. Behold, you have made my days as a span in le...

Memorial Day

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Mom's youngest brother, Robert Levi Bond, killed in action in September of 1944, buried in Belgium at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery ....
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Surrounded by a cloud of witnesses

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From the Book of Common Prayer , 2019: Most loving Father, you will us to give thanks for all things, to dread nothing but the loss of y...

Honored dead

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My Bond Great-grandfather's brother Levi W. Bond, Company B, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, US, killed September 3, 1864, ne...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Cigars

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Sat outside under shelter this afternoon. Rain, straight down, warm, April showers, (in May), global warming, I guess, except a month later...

"The book made me laugh out loud"

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In my library From "Laugh Out Loud with P.G. Wodehouse" : What is it about Wodehouse that makes so many lifelong enthus...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Remembering and feeling nostalgic

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Pulled out a folder from my filing cabinet this afternoon that contained documents and photos from my years teaching. I hadn't looked...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

"On Him all my need I lay"

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Jesus bleibet meine Freude, Meines Herzens Trost und Saft, Jesus wehret allem Leide, Er ist meines Lebens Kraft, Meiner Augen Lu...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Originality

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From Anecdotal Evidence this morning: It takes a singular individual, one who is unfashionably non-aligned, to acknowledge his dependen...

"All should be equally free"

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Quoted in the "Moore to the Point" newsletter this morning: Government should protect every man in thinking and speaking freel...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

"Thank God for laughter!"

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Re-posted: I really like the story, and enjoyed noting its attribution. Via Ray Ortlund : Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, the celebrated Broo...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

On the wrong road

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We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

"Bless the name of the Lord..."

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An interesting essay by a Christian who has been in lock-down in Michigan ends with a quotation from Samuel Johnson: The chief security...

“The Weight of Glory”

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This week Russell Moore's Reading in Exile series of YouTube talks is taking up a collection of C.S. Lewis's essays — a different ...
Monday, May 11, 2020

“I don’t think I am wrong, but what if I am wrong?”

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Shadow To Light is an interesting Christian blog that engages with atheist arguments. Today he takes up Sam Harris’s effort to refute ...
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