Finished reading: The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis 📚
Remember, remember the rules. Joshua 1:8
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Today, 12 September 2026
2 Samuel 16:11-12 …Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to. It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will …
Not very sure what’s up with my paragraphs in Today’s essay
2 Samuel 16:4 The King said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth us now yours.”
David, as King, remembered his friendship with Jonathan and the covenant that he had made …
2 Samuel 14:14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not …
2 Samuel 13:15 Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her
Amnon fell in love with his half-sister …
Thomas Browne:
there is therfore some other hand that twines the thread of life than that of nature; wee are not onely ignorant in Antipathies and occult qualities, our ends are as obscure as our beginnings, the line of our dayes is drawne by night, and the various effects therein by a pencill that is invisible; wherein though wee confesse our ignorance, I am sure we doe not erre, if wee say, it is the hand of God.
Abraham Booth, New City Catechism:
As the enemies of your soul are inveterate, subtle, and powerful, and your spiritual frames inconstant, it is highly necessary you should live under a continual remembrance of those awakening considerations. What more advisable, what so necessary for you, as to walk circumspectly; to watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation? A sense of your own weakness and insufficiency, should ever abide on your mind and appear in your conduct. As the corruption of nature is an enemy that is always near you, and always in you, while on earth; and as it is very strongly disposed to second every temptation from without; you should “keep your heart with all diligence.” Watch, diligently watch, over all its imaginations, motions, and tendencies. Consider whence they arise and to what they incline, before you execute any of the purposes formed in it. For such is the superlative deceitfulness of the human heart, “that he who trusteth in it is a fool,” ignorant of his danger, and unmindful of his best interests. This consideration should cause every child of God to bend the suppliant knee, with the utmost frequency, humility, and fervour: to live, as it were, at the throne of grace; nor depart thence till far from the reach of danger. Certain it is, that the more we see of the strength of our adversaries and of the danger we are in from them, the more shall we exercise ourselves in fervent prayer. Can you, O Christian, be cool and indifferent, be dull and careless, when the world, the flesh, and the devil are your implacable and unwearied opposers?
Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
Were there any hopes to out-live vice, or a point to be super-annuated from sin, it were worthy of our knees to implore the dayes of Methuselah. But age doth not …
Finished reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 📚. Again. Reread 02.
😭Three years later this is still the saddest book I’ve ever read. And my best. Of red ants and …