Living the Dream

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Day’s Verse:
“All things are possible to him who believes.”
“If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last and servant of all.”
“For he who is not against us is for us.”
Mark 9:23, 35, 40
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Hang in there.
Let the waves roll over you.
When you feel like you are drowning, remember that the tide will soon recede.
Gargle twice [...]

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1. Go into your blog archives.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
October 3rd, 2003: “Lovely image, oatmeal splattered all over the inside of our $15 microwave and me trying to reach up above the top of the fridge to clean [...]

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Day’s Verse:
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Tim. 1:7
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News: I still haven’t written the Major British Writers paper; I keep allowing “things” to intervene. Today was my last day of Sociology, rather anticlimactic actually. We turned in our papers after a [...]

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Day’s Verse:
It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
Isaiah 65:24
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Title: something I found in my Major British Writers II notes on Walter Pater. Also: “There is no beauty without a degree of strangeness.”
Today a line of cars miraculously appeared at a stop [...]

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Day’s Verse:
Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights.
James 1:17
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Take a moment to think about the gifts in life. I read a guy’s blog recently that consisted almost entirely of complaining about human nature, about the cost of things, and about life. But isn’t it better to [...]

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Or, The Forgotten Year
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Day’s Verse:
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the [...]

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Day’s Verse:
“A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand? For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.”
Mark 5:13
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Well enough, Ian and I ventured back [...]

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Day’s Verse:
For with God nothing will be impossible.
Luke 1:37
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We set up a webcam in our room, facing from my desk to Ian’s, but it is not online and we just play with it so far. Here is a picture whose brighness and contrast I tweaked a bit. Imagine if people saw the world this way: [...]

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Day’s Verse:
Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.
Ps. 62:8
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Thank God for designing bodies that recover quickly. Thirty-eight hours ago I was out for the count, but today me and my trusty roll of toilet-paper (in lieu of Kleenex) have survived one class [...]

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Day’s Verse:
The heavens delcare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Ps. 19:1
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Glory be to God for dappled things -
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plugh;
And áll trádes, their gear and [...]

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