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We live much of life amid unique choices. Joy is anchored in The One beyond our life.
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement.
One fails forward toward success."

C. S. Lewis


"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it,
but because by it I see everything else."

C. S. Lewis




I have come home at last!
This is my real country!
I belong here.
This is the land
I have been looking for all my life,
though I never knew it till now...
Come further up, come further in!

― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1059917-the-last-battle


“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.”


J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien




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December 15, 2022 at 2:07pm
December 15, 2022 at 2:07pm
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'Tis ten more days 'til Christmastide
when Santa brings what young ones spied,
and Hope's eternal, none denied,
but frenzied shopping ends.

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmas bliss
when childlike joy makes parents kiss,
and days of peace begin with this,
the heart of someone mends.

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmas comes
when parents add the checkbook sums.
The calendar, again, becomes
its beat of "mostly same."

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmas Joy
for man and woman, girl and boy,
whose hopes are tied, not to a toy,
but to the One, Who came.

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmas lights
make dancing eyes and wondrous sights
find rest within this night of nights
for Mary's Gift was wrapped.

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmas hay
reminds each heart, He came to stay
to save us from this death-filled Day
to free the ones so trapped.

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmas' Son
this Life forever by Him won
Salvation in blest hearts, now won
is seen so hopeful, new.

'Tis ten more days 'til Christmastide.
A Baby's Birth and Savior's Side
defends us from our human pride.
He came to save us, too.


by Jay O’Toole
on December 15th, 2022


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