Of Recent Significance

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I swear, it's enough leisure in this world to get lost. What's the point of gainin' chicken if you lose all the sauce?

I had to wear my dad's pants to class, them -things was- bigger than me, I had a fight with a bully in school, that -dude was- bigger than me, had the Mossberg pump at home, that -thing- bigger than me, had problems at the crib, at home, -it- was bigger than me

I ain't even got no socks clean

I am not very long for this world, but I am ashamed to say, my memory of this fact is shorter still.

I wish less to mirror Christ's rightenousness in rigid conduct and more to mirror Him in posture, heart, and earnest desire, that my faith in Him might allow sanctification such that my conduct is like his.

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I was there led to the view that [eucatastrophe] produces [joy at the turn of a Happy Ending] because it is a sudden glimpse of Truth, your whole nature chained in material cause and effect, the chain of death, feels a sudden relief as if a major limb out of joint had suddenly snapped back. (...) the Resurrection was the greatest 'eucatastrophe' possible in the greatest Fairy Story – and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.