Normal Day
Mary Jean Irion: Source
Jane Austen's Emma
Emma Woodhouse to Harriet, Emma, Volume 2 Chapter XIV: …but it is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best. Miss Hawkins, perhaps, wanted a home, and thought this the best offer she was likely to have.” It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
Giving up on heaven
For the sake of dignity on earth? Annie Dillard, An American Childhood pg 109 I was too aware to do this, and had done it anyway. What could touch me now? For what were the people Penn Avenue to me, or what was I to myself, really, but a witness to any boldness I could muster, or any cowardice if it came to that, any giving up on heaven for the sake of dignity on earth?
Finished reading: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene 📚
Deceptively simple. Such a refreshing yet still challenging read. I would like to read this one again. Borrowed it from the Medical School Christian Union Library. I hope there are some few people who have read it who are up for a discussion.
Knowledge of the Truth which leads to Godliness
Titus 1:1-3 NIV “Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,”
Things Unseen
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Finished reading: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚 I have finished the second reading of this remarkable book. Courtesy of the Catherine Project.
What a book! What a story! What a lesson!
Finished reading: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis 📚🥳 Just finished The Last Battle. Now I have finished all the seven stories🥳
Comfort one another
2026-10-13 2 Corinthians 7:5-7 ESV “For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
Reflections from Ephesians 1; that the eyes of our hearts may be enlightened
2026-10-12 The Ephesians had had the message of the Gospel preached to them, and they had believed it. Paul says that they were then marked with the seal of the Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it. This faith in the Lord Jesus Christ on the part of the Ephesians, and their love for God’s people, prompts Paul to give so much thanks on their account, and to continue praying for them, so that they may know: 1.