Thus heavenly hope is all serene,
But earthly hope, how bright soe’er,
Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene,
As false and fleeting as ‘tis fair.
–Reginald Heber
On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope
Saturday Sayings – Fleeting Moments
Category: Sayings
Saturday Sayings – Create
As a writer watching my son survive college writing classes,
knowing his personality and his wrong language tendencies,
I’ve concluded that, at least sometimes,
we cushion our message in “thesaurus words” because we fear a harsh reaction.
Only a long time writer knows:
no matter how you cushion it,
harsh reactions will spring up.
When creating matters more to me than my ego,
then it improves.
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photo credit: wikipedia
Saturday Sayings – Friendship
True happiness is of a retired nature,
and an enemy to pomp and noise;
it arises,
in the first place,
from the enjoyment of one’s self;
and, in the next,
from the friendship and conversation
of a few select companions.
*See also my posts on true friendship, beginning here.
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Photo credit: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara)
Photo credit: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara)
Saturday Sayings – Today
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saturday Sayings: Summer!
The year is 1250 and nothing much is different, it seems!
This ancient English song, the earliest known with words and musical notation printed together, is recorded in Thomas Warton‘s History of English Poetry, itself an ancient book from the 1700’s. Try to figure out the meaning of this older version of our language and enjoy!
Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu.
Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu.
Sumer is i-cumin in—
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!
Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu,
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth—
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes thu, cuccu.
Ne swik thu naver nu!
To hear a sung rendition of it in a sweetly natural setting, consider viewing the movie, “Sarah, Plain and Tall“. This delightful version of the popular book of the same title speaks volumes to those of us who hunger for a lost childhood.
The New/Old Hate Target
ABC-TV has decided that it can take direct aim at Christians with what amounts to hate speech. This is the premise of its new program GCB (which stands for Good Christian B****es).
This program ridicules Christians, Christianity, the Bible, and Christian symbols in ways that would be unthinkable if aimed at any other religious group. For example, in the official Facebook page for GCB it said that “cleavage will help keep your cross straight.” Can you imagine the reaction in the Muslim community if that kind of message (complete with a highly suggestive photo) would have been made aiming at a symbol of the Islamic faith?
To read more of this, including who sponsors it and why it affects home schooling, go HERE. It’s an amazingly scary world out there, still filled with hatred but aimed in a new direction.
Well, not really so very new . . .
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Indulge
He could see naught but vanity in beauty,
And naught but weakness in a fond caress,
And pitied men whose views of Christian duty
Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.
Josiah Gilbert Holland, Daniel Gray, stanza 9
But . . . but . . . but . . . God carresses the earth with beauty every Spring! David Gray maybe never stuck his nose into a lovely collection of spring beauties, suppose?
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