Author Archive
A River Runs Through – Live On Youtube (Electric)
I recorded a version of A River Runs Through (from Volume 1: On Trials And Overcoming) on electric guitar. Generally I play it on acoustic and a bit more “blue grassy” than this version. Hope you enjoy!
Lemony Snicket – Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Sanctuary… is a word which here means a small, safe place in a troubling world. Like an oasis in a vast desert or an island in a stormy sea.
Lemony Snicket
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 176)
And it may not be amiss for all people who shall meet with my story to make this just observation from it—namely, how frequently in the course of our lives the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into it, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very mean or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 176)
Job 2:10 and C.S. Lewis – from a letter to Arthur Greeves, December 20, 1943
A couple of quotes struck me this morning. The first is from the book of Job. It is his response just after all his wealth, servants and family are stripped from him. The second is from a letter Lewis wrote and really doesn’t need much context. With out further ado:
Shall we accept the good from God, and not trouble?
Job 2:10
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s “real life” is a phantom of one’s own imagination.
C.S. Lewis – from a letter to Arthur Greeves, December 20, 1943
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 66)
Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony, that there was scare any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positive to thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something comfort ourselves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 66)
Music Suggestion: Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel
I’ve always been a die hard Peter Gabriel fan, but something about this song has kept coming to my attention over the years. I first heard it years ago when I first began listening to Peter Gabriel. Then in the summer of 2007 I was wandering through a metro station in Paris and this song began to play. The song had faded out of my memory and I paused from rushing around just to listen. It struck me then as it strikes me today; a glimpse of reality and a glimpse of hope. Hope you enjoy:
Music Suggestion: Wrecking Ball – Bruce Springsteen
I’ve been listening to this album almost daily since purchasing it in May. Every song on it is great. If you haven’t listened to it yet do yourself a favor and make it happen. Bellow is a youtube video of the whole album, which will most likely be taken down for copyright infringement:
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
It is not enough to be happy, we must be satisfied with ourselves.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
Music Suggestion: Ave Maria – Franz Biebl
This piece is so good. I can’t get it out of my head. Take a listen: