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As I was growing up, one question plagued me more than all the rest: How can I live a holy life in the midst of a fallen world? ( Read more... )

Key Verse: Luke 19:10
for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Childhood: Idealistic visionsAs children, we all face the great wide world of life. It is full of terror as well as potential. Rather than accept the challenge, I turned a blind eye to it. I denied the reality before me and retreated into a mental realm of ( Read more... )

You know lately I have been wrestling with these mixed thoughts in scattered journal articles. Well let me be clearer about it now because I am feeling open ( Read more... )

Latest news on the end of my birthday week ( Read more... )

My Tolkein hero would have to be one of the ancient elves. Maybe Fingolfin...he fought one on one with Morgoth valiantly but was slain. Or maybe Earendil! What could be more awesome and Valar-like than sailing away with a Silmaril bound upon his brow XDXD ( Read more... )

Well, the moss agate is getting to me and making me sit and think about all the wondersof this natural world. I am by no means an environmentalist, but I do have an appriciation for art in the natural world ( Read more... )

11 getsu 27 nichi ni Yoshida Shoin-sensei ga shinimashita.
On the 27th of November, Yoshida Shoin died.

On his journey to the place of his final rest, he and his loyal students were caught in a rain storm - the rain dripped and fell frm the pinetrees and he composed this poem:

This is the journey, I presume, from which I shall never return. We ( Read more... )

I drew and colored in some cute-icized Dune characters on my website - look under the art page ( Read more... )

ummmmm...a bunch of uncomfy stuff ( Read more... )