"Christianity was mainly associated, for me, with ugly architecture, ugly music, and bad poetry." -C. S. Lewis, speaking of his pre-Christian life. How simultaneously sad and reassuring that not much has changed almost a century later.

“I’ve always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.” -J. R. R. Tolkien.

Hay un tipo de humor que no nace de la alegría, sino de la resignación a sacar lo mejor de las situaciones difíciles, tristes, o incluso desesperadas.

There is a kind of humor that grows not from joy but from a resignation to make the best of difficult, sad, or even hopeless situations.

El hecho de que una persona no esté acostumbrada a las demostraciones emocionales no significa que no esté acostumbrada a las emociones.

Just because a person is not wont to emotional displays does not mean that they are not wont to emotion.

La mayoría de las veces, no se trata de tomar la decisión correcta. La mayoría de las veces, se trata de tomar la mejor decisión.

Most of the time, it's not about making the right choice. Most of the time, it's about making the best choice.

Mi esposa trajo el auto sin gasolina anoche. Me pidió que fuera a rellenarlo esta mañana. Así que puedo irritarme y resentirme. O puedo estar contento de servirla, agradecido de tenerla. Las ##prioridades y la #perspectiva son las cosas más importantes de la vida.

Wife brought back car with no gas last night. Asked me to go refill it this morning. So I can get irritated and resentful. Or I can be glad to serve her, grateful to have her. #Priorities and #perspective are the most important things in life.

Encontrar algo bello es encontrarlo atractivo pero no útil. Una persona, un árbol, un Dios, un lago, una pintura: medimos su valor no por lo que puede hacer por nosotros, sino simplemente por lo que es.

To find something beautiful is to find it attractive but not useful. A person, a tree, a God, a painting: we measure its worth not for what it can for us, but just for what it is.

RT @LloydLegalist: Literally No One:. Literally No One Anwhere:. Doorbell on the TV: *rings*. My dog:

Humbled by the character Kuiil. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. This is the Way. I have spoken.

The OT liturgical pattern:. -Sin offering (to make propitiation between God and sinner).-Whole burnt offering (total praise to God).-Peace offering (joyous fellowship of God's people). Worth pondering that the culmination of worship is shalom togetherness.

Porque no tienen en cuenta los hechos del Señor ni la obra de Sus manos, Él los derribará y no los edificará. -Salmos 28:5 NBLA. Guau. Qué importante es considerar las obras del Señor. Reflexionemos, maravillémonos, y alabémonos.

Psalms 28:5 NASB1995.[5] Because they do not regard the works of the Lord nor the deeds of His hands, He will tear them down and not build them up. Amazing. Punishment for not considering God's work. Let us consider and marvel and rejoice.

Podría ser prudente establecer un límite compasivo sobre cuánto permitimos que las decisiones de otras personas afecten nuestras emociones.

It might be wise to set a compassionate limit on how much we let other people's choices affect our emotions.

I recently watched _The End of a Superpower: The Collapse of the Soviet Union_. Released in 2021, it claimed that Ukraine, under Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was the most corrupt of all the former Soviet satellites states. Interesting how the times, and the narratives, change.