Saturday
Two-lined Spittlebug
at the first impulse
The thoughts of the godly are never so stayed upon the word of God as not to be carried away at the first impulse to some allurements; and especially when dangers disquiet us, or when we are assailed with sore temptations, it is scarcely possible for us, from our being so inclined to the earth, not to be moved by the enticements presented to us, until our minds put a bridle upon themselves, and turn them back to God.
I drove up to DC today.
Praying the Psalms
If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ. We must ask how we can understand the Psalms as God’s Word, and then we shall be able to pray them. It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart.
Great Spangled Fritillary
European hornet
Eastern tiger swallowtail
If Christianity taken as a whole is indeed an entirely coherent and credible system of belief, then the universalist understanding of its message is the only one possible.
David Bentley Hart
For some time now I’ve had email and safari off my iPhone, and I’ve found this to be both extremely inconvenient and wonderfully freeing.