The Blog Of Dysfunction

Jithvi Justin Ninan
Once a potter happened to make,
A jar so puny that none would take.
It was a creation of such poor taste,
That people thought it was a waste.
So the jar on its shelf grew old,
Despised, rejected & unsold.
But though it fetched its master no gain,
He still thought it was worth the pain.
Then taking pity on [...]

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Thomas Moore 1779-1852
on taking a wife
‘Come come’, said Tom’s father, ‘At your time of life,there’s no longer excuse for thus playing the rake.It’s time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.’‘Why so it is, father. Whose wife shall I take?’
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Found this real nice para on the doubting thomas in every theologian.By James K.A. Smith From Generous Orthodoxy

"I've become more and more convinced that the most authentic theologizing–both writing and teaching–happens on a fulcrum that teeters between nothingness and the riches of creation, at the near edge of nihilism where, there alone, can we be [...]

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Snippets from a profound poem by Francis Thompson
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter;
Up vistaed hopes I sped;
And shot, precipitated,
Adown Titanic glooms [...]

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