KyrieKyrie

4Kyrie eleison, down the road that I must travel,
Kyrie eleison, through the darkness of the night,
Kyrie eleison, where I'm going will you follow?
Kyrie eleison, on a highway in the light.

-refrain from #1 hit "Kyrie" by Mr. Mister in March, 1986.
"Kyrie eleison" is from the Greek for "Lord, have mercy."
Today Kyrie Anna Ruth Howard turns 18!

life&death

4Once a man is united to God, how could he not
live forever? Once a man is separated from God,
what can he do but wither and die?

-C. S. Lewis

chalice (turns sixteen)



4Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

-Charles Baudelaire

bloggeth

4Either write something worth reading
or do something worth writing.

-Benjamin Franklin

palindrome (same forward and backward)

4Are we not drawn onward we few,
drawn onward to new era?

-unknown

lightness

4With money in your pocket you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.

-Yiddish proverb

He who did not spare his own Son
but gave him up for us all,
how will he not also with him
graciously give us all things?

-Romans 8:32

unction

4I don't like cut-and-dried sermons. No, when I hear a man preach I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

-Abraham Lincoln

s'long

4Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

-Shakespeare

wealth

4To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

-Cicero

poof

4Get men converted, and a thousand foolish ideas are destroyed.

-Charles Spurgeon

simple

4In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

go figure

4Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

-Wallace Stevens

We demolish arguments
and every pretension
which sets itself up
against the knowledge of God.

-2 Corinthians 10:5

open shut

4The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

-G. K. Chesterton

can't touch this

4Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.

-Thomas Edison

thanks

4A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be grateful.

-Book of Common Prayer

filled

4We must be emptied of that which fills us, that we may be filled with that of which we are empty.

-Augustine

complicated

4There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

-E. B. White

Osama

4It's God's responsibility to punish Osama bin Laden. It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting.

-Wayne Newton