"The heart of focusing is humility. In other words, we are limited people with limited resources, so what do we do with what God has given us? We dream big, but plan realistically. We dream because Scripture says, “nothing is impossible with God”, … [Continue reading]
A dramatic first paragraph. Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh.
Scene is seen. Here's a maximilist and visual opening paragraph.The Moor’s Last Sigh Pg. 138”Once a year, my mother Aurora Zogoiby liked to dance higher than the Gods. Her white hair flying around her in long loose exclamations, her exposed belly … [Continue reading]
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night. A description of breaking out of writer’s block
Harriet Vane in the silence of Oxford. Something comes “back to her that had lain dumb and dead ever since the old, innocent undergraduate days. The singing voice, stifled long ago by the presence of the struggle for existence…began to stammer … [Continue reading]
Lovely prose–Patricia Hampl on the lure of Catholicism. Virgin Time
And hadn’t everybody else escaped? Was I the only diehard left, like one of those aged and confused Japanese soldiers who periodically emerge from some island jungle, bristling with loyalty everyone supposes is for the divine emperor but which … [Continue reading]
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night. A description of breaking out of writer’s block
Harriet Vane in the silence of Oxford. Something comes “back to her that had lain dumb and dead ever since the old, innocent undergraduate days. The singing voice, stifled long ago by the presence of the struggle for existence…began to stammer a … [Continue reading]
Worship
Worship is one of the best things in life--turning your eyes upon Jesus, looking full in his wonderful face. Seeing the Lord high and lifted up, with the train of his robe filling the temple with glory. Forgetting yourself in focusing on him. … [Continue reading]
Characterization which somehow gets the essence of a person.
Look at this passage from A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving "There was undeniably a feline quality to my mother--never in the sly or stealthy sense of the word, but in the word’s other catlike qualities:a clean, sleek, self-possessed, … [Continue reading]
Star-breather. God breathes Stars. Psalm 33:7
Star breather. God breathes stars. "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth." NIV Psalm 33:6. "The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed, and all the stars were born." … [Continue reading]
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