"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Today I finished Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of Lord of the Rings by Mark Eddy Smith. It’s an extremely readable book, riskly through The Lord of the Rings, drawing out important life lessons and the importance of virtues from Tolkien’s magnum opus.
Here is the 2nd Edition of Crowder’s abortion “Change my mind” video:
While I don’t always agree with everything he says, I’ve been really enjoying watching the Steven Crowder “Change my mind” segments. In these segments, he has a long-form discussion with someone who opposes his view on a particular subject and invites them to change his mind…
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Hmmmm…I feel in the mood for a little bit of Gospel this morning…
Master, the tempest is raging!
The billows are tossing high!
The sky is o’ershadowed with blackness.
No shelter or help is nigh.
Carest thou not that we perish?
How canst thou lie asleep
When each moment so madly is threat’ning
A grave in the angry deep?
The winds and the waves shall obey thy will:
Peace, be still.
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea
Or demons or men or whatever it be,
No waters can swallow the ship where lies
The Master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey thy will:
Peace, be still; peace, be still.
They all shall sweetly obey thy will:
Peace, peace, be still.