QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Every person must have a purpose that takes them outside of themselves. And so I thank God for the opportunity to maintain this quiet corner of the internet for us, that He provides the time and the energy it takes to put it together, and the pull that brings people here to read and join in.

Every person must feel the warmth of human compansionship, and so I thank God for the readers’ emails and the many friends with whom I share news, and comforts, and the occasional smile every day.

Every person must come to understand themselves in context, and so I thank God for the good teachers and the business travel, the knowledge and the seasoning that can permit one to look at the troubles of our own time in the light of history, and know that these too shall pass. There is nothing which we are called to face that has not been encountered by people just like us, with the same weaknesses and failings. It is not only books but experience that teaches this to us, the commonality of all that is human.

As a very wise friend of mine recently said, ‘the nature of my rebellion, is to rebuff the quiet overtures from heaven.’ There can be a certain sick sweetness in wallowing and worrying over not only what is real but is also imagined, and to try and bear the troubles of the world by ourselves. But it is a sickness, unto death.

So let us pray for a serene vision of things as they really are, and that strength, which used to be called the virtue of fortitude, to never give in to the allure of falsehoods and the emptiness of despair. The tomb is empty, and death is overthrown.”

Jesse