Quote of the Week XXVIV

The problem with socialists is that eventually they run out of other people's money

(Margaret Thatcher)

Quote of the Week XXVIII

I would rather limp as a man than walk freely as a coward...

- guess who said it.

Holding On

Have you ever found yourself in a bad way of some sort and thought that you just couldn't remain true (as if becoming false would somehow help)? Maybe you are tempted to do something wrong and under other more happy circumstances you might not even be tempted, let alone give in to the temptation. You are not really even likely sure what giving in is supposed to do. If you have been in a situation like this I am sure you have at one time or another given in to some evil in the moment of your trial and you have not remained true. And if you have done this you have likely also found that sometimes if you had just held on a little while longer you would have had a very different perspective on the whole situation. It is funny how we all react to stress sometimes. Perhaps today we should consider not making things worse when they are already bad.

Quote of the Week XXVIII

You've been leaving yourself open for me all day long Bruce Lee. -The Chan Man Ninja

Climbing

Blokey Blokes and Worship Music

Peace and Victory in Context

Peace (in the political sense)is not something that is worth having at any cost- and neither is victory (again in the political sense). It is funny to me that when peace and victory are considered as spiritual goals everything changes. As spiritual goals, these two things are worth much greater risks and losses.

A Brief Comment On Planning and Living

There are many days when the battle is not out in the open. Sometimes, it is just the temptation to go to the other side to try and get what you want. It is different when you discover what it is you actually want- sometimes a lot better, sometimes far worse...

Each day has it's own challenges. Sometimes they are one kind of thing, sometimes they are another. To say that you should make good plans does not mean that you should not exist where you are when you are. Planning does not consist of fitting two day's problems into a single day. It is enough to take the problem of this day and commit it to one who can do far better than you... Jesus did once say that tomorrow would worry about itself.

Quote of the Week XXVII

When death was new to me and I woke each day to the shock of its reality, I wanted nothing more than to claw my way back into sleep and my dreams, where there wasn't a pit of fear in my stomach and a heavy weight on my chest. I needed to breathe deeply, but it felt as though the air was rare and thin. I wanted only to stay in bed and cry, and when I looked around our bedroom and saw his things, ghostly images of Alex filled my mind, doing mundane things like pawing through a dresser drawer, looking for a sock.

(Jennifer Lowe-Anker. Forget Me Not: a memoir. The Mountaineers Books; Seattle: 2008.)

Still...

I dream of you without a face
And every time I lose the thread
And I realize something hard to take
I just don't know who you are.

Sometimes the sun is shining bright
And all the sky seems blue
And still I cannot take a step
Still I dream of you.

I don't know if I'll see you there
But maybe I hope I will
And maybe that's why I hate it here
I hate it here still.