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  • This morning I had two lovely hours to spend with my Bible, a pen, and a notebook. I spend most of it on James 4-5. Reading James is like reading Proverbs. It's packed; every sentence has to be taken separately and chewe…

  • Proofreaders, awake. I'm researching for my Chaucer presentation on courtly love and my research paper on Troilus and Criseyde, and I just realized that the title of the Chaucer page I have open in "The Cantebury Tales.…

  • Peculiar encounters haven't been rare since I came to college, but today's ranks up there. The gentleman who sits on my left in chapel has made it clear since the first week that he has no desire to be there. The first…

  • I love mornings and all their glory of light. I just opened my blinds and now the sunlight is pouring through the curtains and across the hardwood floors. Where the waves grow sweet,Doubt not Reepicheep,There is the Utt…

  • When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over . . . you'll [s…

  • I'm not ashamed. I believe in lovely things. I believe in noble things. I believe in what is old and true and tested. I refuse to believe the lie that learning has no value beyond its relevance to a lucrative career, an…

  • Everybody was in rare form yesterday and today . . . I only put one psycho pianist in each group. ~ Dr. Whitley Periods are big happy families. See, the mama and the papa and the two children phrases. These over here a…

  • fighting battles . . . fighting battles . . . The joy of the Lord is your strength.

  • He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in man's heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11 What does it mean that He makes everything beautiful in its time? That He nourishes everything until it becomes it…

  • I haven't laughed that hard in my entire life. So reading Wodehouse often provokes great mirth. Misreading Wodehouse provokes it to a positively perilous extent. Erin was reading a chapter of Uncle Fred in the Springti…

  • I feel like I've been back at school for a month already, and I've only been here since last Sunday. I didn't know how hard it is to be human. It's hard to come to grips with being weak and imperfect and inadequate. It'…

  • Let not the floodwater overflow me,Nor let the deep swallow me up;And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.And…

  • I'm almost ashamed how happy it makes me, but Marshbanks Cafeteria is serving food this semester. For the first time, it smells like food as I pass by. For the first time I don't have to drain the grease off my plate bef…

  • Back in the insane asy - I mean, back at dear Campbell University where my higher education is taking place. I have a roommate this semester. Granted I've already had three roommates, but none of them lasted more than …

  • You make the outgoings of the morning and evening rejoice.You visit the earth and water it,You greatly enrich it;The river of God is full of water;You provide their grain,For so you have prepared it.You water its ridges …

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