Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Friday March
16, 2018 Speak the truth - it's your super power. Honesty is Godly, lies and half-truths are not. When you live in honest discourse you learn to think carefully before speaking - and when you do speak, you become more thoughtful in how to express yourself with kindness. Try it. May God bless you with
holiness in speech and deed. THE DEEP FAITH OF "A WRINKLE IN TIME" AUTHOR MADELEINE L'ENGLE If I’ve ever
written a book that says what I feel about God and the universe, this is it. This is my psalm of praise to life, my stand for life against death.
It took 26 publisher rejections before Madeleine L’Engle could get “A Wrinkle in Time” into print in 1962. The book was an instant hit, winning the Newbery Medal the following year, but despite its wild success, L’Engle
still had fierce critics — including a good number of them who disliked her book for faith reasons.
While L’Engle considered herself a devout Christian, and sprinkled the book with scriptural references, she was accused by some conservative Christians of promoting witchcraft and the occult — an accusation made later against “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling.
The religious wariness likely also contributed to some publishers’ rejection of the book, but it didn’t stop “A Wrinkle in
Time” from being popular for more than 50 years after it was finally saw the light.
She wrote that publishers had trouble with “A Wrinkle in Time” “because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children’s or an adult’s book, anyhow...READ MORE
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Better than
100 years lived in ignorance, without contemplation, is one single day of life lived in wisdom and in deep contemplation. Better than 100 years lived in idleness and in weakness is a single day of life lived with courage and powerful striving. Better than 100 years not considering how all things arise and pass away is one single day of life if one considers how all things arise and pass away. Better than 100 years not seen one's own immortality
is one single day of life if one sees one's own immortality.
SINS
Please pray for me not to be judgmental, hypocritical and self-righteous. Please pray for me not to want but to be satisfied and for me to be sorry and
confess sins. Please pray that I won't grieve and sin against the Holy Spirit. - fallen angel |
Today's quote is by author Madeleine L'Engle |
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