As we grow old the

beauty steals inward.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well I dreamed I saw

the silver space ships

flying in the yellow haze

of the sun.

-Neil Young (After the Gold Rush)

Well, many of the songs,

they aren't sad,

they're hopeless.

-Townes Van Zandt

(when asked why he only wrote sad songs)

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,

and multiply each through endless years;

one minute of heaven is worth them all.

-Charles Lamb

It's so much more friendly

with two.

-Piglet

It is the most minor of gifts

and not a very high-class way

to earn a living. After all,

Shirley Temple could do it at

the age of four.

-Katherine Hepburn (on acting)

Do you see a man who

is hasty in his words?

There is more hope for

a fool than for him.

-Proverbs 29:20

We seem to be made to suffer.

It's our lot in life.

-C3PO

When you read God's word

you must constantly be

saying to yourself,

"it is talking to me,

and about me."

-Soren Kierkegaard

Art is born of the

observation of nature.

-Cicero

Happy Birthday Kate

Birthdays are good for you.

Studies show that people who

have the most live the longest.

If the Lord didn't intend for

us to eat animals, why did he

make them out of meat?

photo by man ray

The function of the imagination

is not to make strange things

settled, but to make settled things

strange.

-G. K. Chesterton

For by your words

you will be justified,

and by your words

you will be condemned.

-Matthew 12:37

Christ beside me, Christ before me,

Christ behind me, Christ within me,

Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

-Saint Patrick

Computers are incredibly

fast, accurate, and stupid.

Human beings are incredibly

slow, inacurrate, and brilliant.

Together they are powerful

beyond imagination.

-Albert Einstein

I believe that pluralistic

secularism, in the long run,

is a more deadly poison than

straightforward persecution.

-Francis Schaeffer

What is seldom

is wonderful.

-Irish Proverb

We are always in the forge, or

on the anvil; by trials God is

shaping us for higher things.

-Henry Ward Beecher

College isn't the

place to go

for ideas.

-Helen Keller

For a thousand years

in your sight are

but as yesterday

when it is past,

or as a watch in the night.

-Psalm 90:4

photo and junkpile by sienna (click to enlarge)

To invent you need a good

imagination and a pile of junk.

-Thomas Edison

There are two means of refuge

from the miseries of life -

music and cats.

-Albert Schweitzer

Wherever you are it is

your friends who make

your world.

-William James (hat tip to brae)

A great part of life

consists in contemplating

what we cannot cure.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is having a large,

loving, caring, close-knit family

in another city.

-George Burns

Far and away the best prize

that life offers is the chance

to work hard at work worth doing.

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Are you still so dull?"

Jesus asked them.

-Matthew 15:16

photo by chalice

Life is too deep for words,

so don't try to describe it,

just live it.

-C. S. Lewis

*

This is me at Johns Hopkins last year with Pax, Kate and Kyrie.

I've come so far since then. The bone marrow transplant

(compliments of my brother David) to treat my leukemia appears

to have been successful. There is no trace of the cancer, but there

have been a few bumps (of course) and I still have a ways to go.

All praise to God my savior, with deep gratitude to David and the

many many friends who have encouraged, supported, and intereceded

for my family and me.

Today Brae is moving to Philadelphia to begin pursuing a new career

path which will most certainly involve photography. She has been living

at home with us since returning from China several months ago.

Sienna is off to Kentucky for spring break to visit her friend Anna from

Holland whom she met in Africa aboard Mercy Ships. Anna married

Todd, a Yank she met on Mercy Ships, and they've settled in Louisville.

And Kyrie is flying off to Huanta, Peru with a group of students from

Covenant to assist in building a church and in teaching young children

about the wonders of the gospel.

What a pivotal day for this little family.

*

The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began

Now far ahead the road has gone,

And I must follow if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say.

*

-J. R. R. Tolkien

*

Nothing can be so perfect when

we possess it as it will seem

when remembered.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

My doctor told me to stop having

intimate dinners for four, unless

there are three other people.

-Orson Welles