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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 |
O, why does it make me cry, remembering the season's love? The little boy just sits to sigh, while watching Christmas' flying doves. An aging man still wonders where the hope of childhood flies away. The window's yard, now makes me stare as years of life fill ev'ry day. Salvation's hope, it lingers near, but sadness clouds the weary mind. Can Christmas peace be newly clear, while my "little boy" needs words so kind? All therapy requires some time. The darkness grows before the Light. My Christmas place, an uphill climb, will welcome me with greater sight. by Jay O’Toole on May 5th, 2023 Reference cue: "Where Are You, Christmas?" (The song from How The Grinch Stole Christmas) |