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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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The days of strength will wax and wane,
before we reach the goal.
Some wounds and pains we all must gain,
before we are made whole.

Some days we wonder 'bout the worth
of taking one more step
when pains of neck, back, and thoughts' birth
all scream, "Not one more rep!"

When going on is not a thing
we easily can do,
we then with Samwise Gamgee sing,
"I'll go there, Sir, with you!"

The burden of the ring of Truth (John 3:16)
weighs heavy on the heart.
We look to finish what from youth (Romans 1:16)
the Lord did then impart.

"I can't go on," says Frodo's pate.
His strength had given out,
but Sam did wisely say of late,
"Let's descend this hill of doubt."

The greatest friends we'll ever have
don't shame us in our pain.
They start our hope to fully calve,
before the last drop of rain.

The forward march must move each head,
and move the heart alike,
before our story's been full read,
like Pilgrim's Progress' hike.


by Jay O’Toole
on May 2nd, 2023


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