Anita

Saved by grace alone. Christian wife and mom. Our first homeschooled student just graduated, and that's going to take some getting used to.

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[Anita @AK__Texas]

@jacqueboatman

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

A good morning to each and every one of you. Use today well.

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@lazibe28 Hey I wonder if this is in Missouri? We rode one just like this there when our boys were little!

[Andrew Snyder @Andrewnsnyder]

Who is Beowulf? What is Beowulf?

What is a ring-lord?

What is Grendel?

What is the relationship between the paganism of the setting and the Christianity of the poet?

Join me in the latest episode of @Mythic_Mind as I discuss the text up to the death of Grendel.

Links below!

[Armond Boudreaux @armondboudreaux]

“One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”

John Donne
Holy Sonnet X

[Anita @AK__Texas]

“I am the weakest, I am aware, and in wit feeblest, and the least loss, if I live not, if one would learn the truth.”

— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by J. R. R. Tolkien

[Anita @AK__Texas]

Photo from our 2024 vacation. ✨

[Anita @AK__Texas]

"The celebrated windows flamed with light
directly pouring north across the Seine;
we rustled into place. Then violins
vaunting Vivaldi's strident strength, then Brahms,
seemed to suck with their passionate sweetness,
bit by bit, the vigor from the red,
the blazing blue, so that the listening eye
saw suddenly the thick black lines, in shapes
of shield and cross and strut and brace, that held
the holy glowing fantasy together.
The music surged; the glow became a milk,
a whisper to the eye, a glimmer ebbed
until our beating hearts, our violins
were cased in thin but solid sheets of lead."

— Evening Concert, Sainte-Chapelle, John Updike

[Anita @AK__Texas]

"Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done. The things You planned for us no one can recount to You; were I to speak and tell them, they would be too many to declare."

— Psalm 40:5

[Anita @AK__Texas]

Beautiful image found on Pinterest but it wasn't credited. Happy to add it if anyone knows...

[Anita @AK__Texas]

"O God beyond all praising,
we worship you today
and sing the love amazing
that songs cannot repay;
for we can only wonder
at every gift you send,
at blessings without number
and mercies without end:
we lift our hearts before you
and wait upon your word,
we honor and adore you,
our great and mighty Lord."

— O God Beyond All Praising, Michael Perry. Music: From Gustav Holst's The Planets, 1918

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@underbrightwing @nivenrile Happy Anniversary to you two! 💝

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@jacqueboatman Beautiful, Jacque!

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

I knelt in a silent empty chapel
And a great wood lay around
And a forest filled with a tramping noise
And a mighty drumming sound

O ye warriors of England that are marching dark
Can ye see no light before you but the courage in your heart

- J.R.R. Tolkien, Empty Chapel [A, B]

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@once_darkness We've lived in this neighborhood since our boys were small, so over the years my kids and I have named all the outdoor areas after books. This one was easy! It's Narnia to us! ❄️🤍

[Anita @AK__Texas]

“A year slips by swiftly, never the same returning;
the outset to the ending is equal, but seldom.”
— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. J. R. R. Tolkien

Here in Texas, the year has circled back, but it sure didn’t repeat itself.

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@pinkrosesdawn Amen, Dawn! 🙏🏻🕊️

[Anita @AK__Texas]

"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."

Isaiah 1: 18

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@Gentleman_Ways The message was equally as edifying as well!

[Anita @AK__Texas]

🕊️ Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe...

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@nivenrile Buy marshmallows! 🔥

[Anita @AK__Texas]

@pinkrosesdawn 😉👏