1/16/07

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask--half our great theological and metaphysical problems--are like that . . . . Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there was never any problem.

And, more than once, that impression which I can't describe except by saying that it's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

1/8/07

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27

Leave your orphans; I will protect their lives. Your widows too can trust in me.

Jeremiah 49:11

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalm 82:3

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

Psalm 68:5

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8

1/5/06

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for it's the only thing in this world that lasts. It's the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for..."

Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

Here's to the west, friend! Keep dreaming . . .

1/2/07

The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." As they make music they will sing, "All my fountains are in you."

~Psalm 87: 6-7

12/29/06

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams.

~W.B.Yeats

12/28/06

A Year of Weddings

"You are God's smile upon my life, my soul's bright star, my joy . . . my wife!"

~B.J. Hoff

Heather and Sam, January 14, 2006

"For a moment like this, some people wait a lifetime."

Helena and Ben, August 5, 2006

"God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you."


Hannah and Brian, September 30, 2006

The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!"
Revelation 22:17

12/22/06

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world."
John 17:24

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken and, when you cannot trace His hand, you can always trust His heart.

- Charles Spurgeon

Happy Birthday, Mom!