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Day’s Verse:
Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth!
For the LORD has spoken:
“I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.”
Isaiah 1:2
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Later
Oh, God, what have I done? What have I become? Why has my pious and honest attempt to return my family to its rightful place been accursed with such horror? Worst of all, I enjoyed my depravity, wallowed shamelessly in brains, drank deeply and greedily of the cup offered by the Prince of Darkness.
My last entry, alas, precedes a period of darkness that I can scarce begin to acknowledge, and which I am loath even now to chronicle. Yet, for posterity, and should I fail in my return journey, I must put pen to paper with full and complete frankness, withholding no detail. I cannot but hope that God, in His infinite mercy, will forgive my sins and, perhaps, redeem me from the evil that even now festers and grows in my heart with every passing moment.