시편 121

하나님은 너를 지키시는 자

너의 우편에 그늘 되시니

낮의 해와 밤의 달도

너를 해치 못하리

하나님은 너를 지키시는 자

너의 환란을 면케하시니

그가 너를 지키시리라

너의 출입을 지키시리라

눈을 들어 산을 보아라

너의 도움 어디서 오나

천지 지으신

너를 만드신

여호와께로다

♡

God is good

Despite how I feel or what I go through
Whether circumstances be bad or good
Whether people hate or love
or are hated or loved
Whether I love or hate
or am loved or hated

He loves.
He is good.

The end.

"God judged it better

to bring good out of evil 

than to suffer no evil to exist." 

(St. Augustine)

thankful . . .

full of thanks .

in a contemplative mood . . .

but without much to write about.

so i shall just chatter away whatever thoughts my mind delivers to the tips of my fingers. Like that. Just. Whims, I suppose.

Hm.


Okay, well, five minutes of nothing have just passed. I don't intend to just sit in front of a screen forcing my brain to evoke non-existent stuffs. Does that make it existent? Saying that they're "non-existent"? Hm. Nothing. It's nothing, but it exists, right? Hm. If everything were gone, then nothing would still exist. Hm. Hm hm hm.

Just kidding.

i need more yarn .

Belatedly realized we finally crossed into the cool threshold of November. Was intently crocheting the threads of my life away into what I had imagined would become a scarf......which I later unraveled back into its threadly state because there wasn't enough to make one. Oh well.

I've stated before, and I'll state it again . . . I lub Novembre! And for what reason(s), I don't know! Alls I do know is that Time herself is diligently threading these months away and is quickly finishing up the last few touches of this year.

I wonder how many scarves Time has.

I really like this picture. Hehe.

~_~

purpose . . .

❝ The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by His purpose and for His purpose. ❞

 -Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life)

shocked ;

& more shocked that i was shocked.

Humility, the Right End
(*note: "The Screwtape Letters is a fictional correspondence between a senior tempter, Screwtape, and his protégé, Wormwood. In this letter Screwtape attempts to explain the great Quarrel between the Enemy (God) and the 'father' of all tempters, Satan.")

❝Screwtape continues his examination of the virtue of Humility:

To anticipate the Enemy's strategy, we must consider His aims. The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall. He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things. He wants to kill their animal self-love as soon as possible; but it is His long-term policy, I fear to restore to them a new kind of self-love--a charity and gratitude for all selves, including their own; when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. For we must never forget what is the most repellent and inexplicable trait in our Enemy; He really loves the hairless bipeds He has created and always gives back to them with His right hand what He has taken away with His left.❞

-The Screwtape Letters
-A Year with C. S. Lewis

*tear.