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March 9, 2008

I was happy today

I had not realized how long it has been since I felt joy until this morning.

As I was driving home from work, I felt energized. Anticipating the day. When I got home I played with the boys for the first time in months, started (and won) a pun/jokefest, and basically had a normal day 'til going to bed at noon.

It truly is the small things that make life worth living, but for me, today was a big thing.


November 2, 2007

If

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


October 21, 2007

Quote of the Day

"In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity."

- attributed to St. Augustine


October 2, 2007

Who is in Charge of the Clattering Train?

author unknown, quoted by Winston Churchill in the excellent biopic, The Gathering Storm.

Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak and the couplings strain,
And the pace is hot, and the points are near,
And Sleep has deadened the driver’s ear;
And the signals flash through the night in vain,
For Death is in charge of the clattering train.


September 3, 2007

Free at last!

Today, with the flourish of a pen, we finally became free of all credit card debt!

It took six looong years and much financial pain to dig ourselves out of the financial hole that we created. May this small post stand as mute testimony to the folly of instant gratification.

Six years ago, we decided it might be a good idea to know exactly what we owed in credit card debt, so we sat down and added it all up.

What we found was staggering.

Continue reading "Free at last!" »


August 25, 2007

Quote of the Day

"You have made us for Yourself, oh God, and our hearts are ever restless until they find rest in You."

- St. Augustine, Confessions


August 22, 2007

Quote of the Day

"Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do."

- Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace?