Much was possible to a man in solitude, but some things were possible only to a man in companionship, and of these the most important was balance. No mind was so good that it did not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly. *
9:30
Where is Rebecca?
10:00
Somedays...I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall. **
10:35
I do not recognize you, O heart.
Why have you betrayed me,
exposing me as a man of contradictions and confusion?
"Certainty, certainty, confidence!," I thought -
And I thought that you agreed!
You lead me down a mysterious road.
And I cannot discern if the unfamiliar signposts
in their foreign languages shout
"Danger! Foolishness!..."
or
"Haven, Wisdom..."
..."THIS WAY."
10:55
We too have myths, symbols, a world of our own,
A universe of tangled memories, hopes and schemes;
Counterpoised within that dovetailed zone,
We share our chosen take-for-granted dreams.***
11:10
And then, like before, i will come to a place where i taste even more deliciously the sweetness of my God.
11:20
I once journeyed to a foreign land. Upon digging my hands into the new earth and taking in all that I could as rapidly as I could, I concluded that I very much enjoyed this new world. The soil was moist and the air was sweet. But more importantly, it was new. And most importantly, it was not where I’d been living. I decided to stay and make this new place my home. What of the old world? Nothing! It is a new time and a new time warrants a new world. Maybe I would discover that I was indeed made for this place!
But as the adventurous world became more familiar, the anticipated intimacy was intercepted by a chasm. And there over the chasm loomed the hint that I would always, to some degree be a foreigner. Oh, to return Home.
11:48
Shouldn't have had the iced mocha. Wide awake. Time for a movie, I guess. Iris?
11:59
11:10
And then, like before, i will come to a place where i taste even more deliciously the sweetness of my God.
11:20
I once journeyed to a foreign land. Upon digging my hands into the new earth and taking in all that I could as rapidly as I could, I concluded that I very much enjoyed this new world. The soil was moist and the air was sweet. But more importantly, it was new. And most importantly, it was not where I’d been living. I decided to stay and make this new place my home. What of the old world? Nothing! It is a new time and a new time warrants a new world. Maybe I would discover that I was indeed made for this place!
But as the adventurous world became more familiar, the anticipated intimacy was intercepted by a chasm. And there over the chasm loomed the hint that I would always, to some degree be a foreigner. Oh, to return Home.
11:48
Shouldn't have had the iced mocha. Wide awake. Time for a movie, I guess. Iris?
11:59
Nihil amori christi praeponere.
(prefer nothing to the love of Christ.)
* Charles Williams (The Place of the Lion)
** Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
*** Micheal O'Siadhail (Absence)
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