December 2011
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In darkness a light shines
Holy places are dark places
“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.” —C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
“And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most...
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“He passed his fingers along a steel rib and felt the stream of life that flowed...”
– Excerpt from Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I can only imagine how good this is in the original French.
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“In a number of interviews during the course of his cancer treatments, he...”
– Doug Wilson (via ayjay)
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“What I’m kind of hoping is that this is just kind of a pause, while we...”
– Neal Stephenson. And all God’s people said AMEN. (via ayjay)
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He will come like last leaf's fall →
He will come like last leaf’s fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud’s folding.
He will come like frost.
One morning when the shrinking earth
opens on mist, to find itself
arrested in the net
of alien, sword-set beauty.
He will come like dark.
One evening when the bursting red
December sun draws up the...
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Bullet to Binary
guessyourdreamsalwaysend:
When you laugh you’ll feel my breath there filling up your lungs. And when you cry, those arent your tears, but I’m there falling down your cheek. And when you say you love him, taste me, I’m like poison on your tongue. But when you’re tired, if you’re quiet, you’ll hear me singing you to sleep.
