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Christmas 2018

Her smile, as Santa sees her through thick halfmoon glasses from up on great-grandma's fireplac…

Ya gotta serve somebody

Scorn faith as they will, moderns can’t escape the yearning of their own hearts for something more…

Tempted by God

"Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted with evi…
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Ann Getty

If anyone were ever to offer me a complete renovation of my home in any style at absolutely no cost…

A celestial course

I'd like that someday - to golf at an expensive, immaculately landscaped golf course. I wouldn…
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Korean Life of Christ

This series of paintings was drawn by 'Unbo' Kim Gichang in 1952.  Unbo experienced the tr…

Fleurs Douces

"Fleurs Douces" (from Baskets ) by Josh Moshier

But Perhaps It Is True

Just as the believer is choked by the salt water of doubt constantly washed into his mouth by the …
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Transparent Aluminum

Scotty and Dr. McCoy have revealed the chemical formula for a 23rd-century material to a late 20th-…

Unique intuition

Nostra Aetate declared that we should have “sincere reverence” for “those ways of conduct and of l…
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Flamingo

A very good baby climbed aboard her new pink flamingo and sailed around the warm blue waters of the…
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Far and near

Through a forest of yellow and green, Below a wide sky, a lake house was seen. A man took its pict…
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Thunder Road

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair The night's busting open these two l…

Sing me a Song

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day O…

The best Christians

I am inclined to think, that if you and I were to travel in search of the best Christian in the la…

산유화

산유화 (山有花) 산에는 꽃 피네 꽃이 피네 갈 봄 여름 없이 꽃이 피네. 산에 산에 피는 꽃은 저만치 혼자서 피어 있네. 산에서 우는 작은 새여 꽃이 좋아 산에서 사노라네. …
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Over the Sea to Skye

The Skye Boat Song  스카이섬의 뱃노래 Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, Onward! the sailors cry…

기이한 느낌

이는 프로이트가 언급한 운하임리히(unheimlich) 개념과도 연관이 있다.# 이 말은 보통 영어로는 언캐니(uncanny), 한국어로는 보통 '기이한 느낌',…

An Endless Present

Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives…

Four Meditations

Consider in my mind, for example's sake, the times of Vespasian: thou shalt see but the same t…

By the Winter River (겨울 강가에서)

The river took pity on the delicate snowflakes, which jumped down into none other than the river w…

The Unquiet Grave

‘THE wind doth blow today, my love, And a few small drops of rain; I never had but one true-love, …
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The Cherry-Tree Carol

JOSEPH was an old man, and an old man was he, When he wedded Mary, in the land of Galilee. Joseph …
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The small stream

It is a hot late afternoon in the middle of summer. We are on a sort of vacation, and have stopped …
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Lineage

And in truth lineage accounts for a great deal, and has a great power in our destinies, even in ou…
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The Roundabout

Unlike fascist, robotic traffic lights where we are told when to stop and go, the roundabout allow…

The Tiara

It took no excessive sensitiveness to beauty to make me literally gasp at the strange, unearthly s…
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The Shut-Eye train

Come, my little one, with me! There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall; In you…
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Go fly a kite

With tuppence for paper and strings, You can have your own set of wings With your feet on the ground …

Campbell Country

Shifting the setting of a Cosmic Horror Story to, for instance, England presents problems. As the …
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The Great Eucatastrophe

This “joy” which I have selected as the mark of the true fairy-story (or romance), or as the seal …

Awake, O sleeper

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stil…
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Bedroom still life

Her first Easter card from her grandmother; her first pair of shoes from Wendy; a banker's lamp…

A Divine Foot in the Door

What seems absurd depends on one’s prejudice. Carl Sagan accepts, as I do, the duality of light, w…

Good Old Times

“I wish the good old times would come again,” she said, “when we were not quite so rich. I do not …

A clean handle on a dirty bucket

Even when the will is perverse – even when a creature is enthralled and captivated by one great si…

Distraction

What is it that makes every man struggle with himself? It is the deep, persistent voice of his own…

Remember me

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me …
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Small Hours

In small hours, I sit by the most beautiful little baby. She whimpers and flails her arms and I pat…
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Polaris

Slumber, watcher, till the spheres, Six and twenty thousand years Have revolv'd, and I return …

Prayer in all action

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloq…
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Lili Von Shtupp

Hello handsome. Is that a ten gallon hat? Or are you just enjoying the show? I'm tired Sick and…
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Winter ducks circled

Winter ducks circled the sky and landed, honking, behind me. I straddled the folding bike, breathin…

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