December 2011
23 posts
“I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered....”
– Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
A Prayer With Coffee
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
And even among these rocks
Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated
An let my cry come unto Thee.
-T.S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday
“… nothing can make up for the absence of someone whom we love, and it would be...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christmas Eve 1943, writing from prison to his fiancee and best friend (via wesleyhill)
“Here are the years that walk between, bearing away the fiddles and the flutes,...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Ash-Wednesday”
“Because of piety’s penchant for taking itself too seriously, theology does well...”
– Tom Oden (via Philip Tallon on Twitter)
viafrank:
Christmas + Sufjan Stevens + Terry...
My Top Ten Albums of 2011
10. Radical Face- The Family Tree: The Roots: Radical Face has a short span in my playlists because I get a little too depressed listening to them. Too much Radical Face is not a healthy thing for me, but it reaches Kristen so you know it has to be good. The crunch in his voice and the feeble yet poignant edge to the lyrics are heavy and beautiful. These songs are weighted stories and they are...
“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on...”
– Don Delillo, White Noise
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
– T.S. Eliot, “Gerontion”
