I survey my life and I see the countless failures and sins. I have only one hope - that Jesus Christ shed His blood for my soul. He is my only consolation after all these years.
“We are here because Jesus Christ didn't say with cold indifference "give them what they deserve; they brought it upon themselves".
Jesus Christ is the mercy of God.”
InstrumentsOfMercy.
BeautifulEulogy.
Psalm 147:3-5
He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.
He counts the number of the stars; he gives names to all of them.
Our Lord is great, vast in power; his understanding is infinite.
Real Wars.. the kind where “horribly smashed men still [move] like half-crushed beetles” (Surprised by Joy, 240). Real wars, the kind C.S. Lewis elsewhere describes as the amalgamation of every temporal evil.
The ideology that sends Brie Larson soaring fictionally around outer space has sent our real daughters, mothers, and sisters — devoid of such superpowers — to war to serve and die in place of men. Real wars
Person #1 “IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!”
Person #2 “Hey, it’s not the end of the world.”
Person #3 “Well, it is the end of the world.. and that’s perfectly fine.”
Which person are you?