What if we started scheduling hangouts for all the Cool, Silent, and Mysterious folks to meet up and brood in the corner of the room?
it's a shame you can't Cool, Silent, and Mysterious your way to being very close to people. we are unfortunately going to have to embarrass ourselves for this
SLEEPING BEAUTY 1959, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark
No thoughts just âthey stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air. And the Shadow departed, and the Sun was unveiled, and light leaped forth; and the waters of Anduin shone like silver, and in all the houses of the City men sang for the joy that welled up in their hearts from what source they could not tell.â
The Christian life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, being slowly replaced with Godâs own insistence on who he is. This is hard work. It takes a lot of sermons and a lot of suffering to believe that Godâs deepest heart is âmerciful and gracious, slow to anger.â The fall in Genesis 3 not only sent us into condemnation and exile. The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satanâs greatest victory in your life today is not the sin in which you regularly indulge but the dark thoughts of Godâs heart that cause you to go there in the first place and keep you cool toward him in the wake of it.
âDane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly
I'm convinced that if Kelsier had a spike, all Ruin would need to whisper to him is, "do it for the vine," and he would do literally anything.
there is a method to my madness. however. there is also a madness to my method.
I admire all kinds of nonsense, balderdash, hogwash, and above all, malarkey.
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