Going Godward
@goinggodward
Mom. Reader. Novice baker. Thinking about eternity.
When she had got to the third page and come to the end, she said, "That is the loveliest story I’ve ever read or ever shall read in my whole life. Oh, I wish I could have gone on reading it for ten years. ..." "Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn’t…
Christianity is so good that there’s just no way a finite person could think it up. God creates man out of love and in His image. God doesn’t remove the possibility of sin and death but gives man free will with a warning. Man sins and dies. God demonstrates His infinite love…
He is real and he is alive in heaven with the Lord, and the spirit of his generosity to orphans inspires us to this day.
“Santa Claus is real”
I refuse to believe that theological quizzes will play any role whatsoever in the Final Judgement of Man. If you get up there and try to justify yourself with how you were correct about some esoteric point . . . I just can't see it being like that.
“Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.” — Ken Follet, Pillars of the Earth There’s real truth and comfort in the words of the old hymn, “We’ll…
Christianity is so good that there’s just no way a finite person could think it up. God creates man out of love and in His image. God doesn’t remove the possibility of sin and death but gives man free will with a warning. Man sins and dies. God demonstrates His infinite love…

“Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.” — Ken Follet, Pillars of the Earth There’s real truth and comfort in the words of the old hymn, “We’ll…

I chant the Phos Hilaron every single evening when I leave work and when I’m cooking dinner. Helps so much with closing the day and entering into a period of rest.
“I advise people who are going through temptations and sorrows to sing various troparia. Just chant a single It Is Truly Meet (Dostóyno yest’) and you will see—the devil will take off and flee. Chanting is the devil’s scorn."
No one knows exactly where Hobbits originated, but it’s almost as if they were created as the ideal Ringbearers – humble, way tougher than anyone expects, yet far less corruptible by the promises of power, etc. Perhaps that is why they were created.
Have lots of kids. Stay at home. Do all the things but don’t complain. Position yourself as an authority and write a book about it all to encourage other moms to do the same. It’s giving Boss Babe but for Christian motherhood.
Husband that starts ending every other sentence with “brother” in honor of Hulk Hogan.
Arrest Obama for his presidential library design
Long day. Sarcasm typeface: on. Cracking fingers. Here goes. Ladies. Please think (if able) of the practical skills you'd like to acquire. Consider that if you're saddened by your lack of progress, you likely haven't blamed yourself enough. Your children take up your time?
Finished “Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett. Despite some of the gruesome and depraved scenes and descriptions of some events, it’s up there as one of my favorite novels now. I only wish I’d read it before I visited Canterbury Cathedral.


My dad had the first Black Sabbath album on cassette that he kept in the console of his Jeep Cherokee Laredo (that I later inherited). I read the album title out loud around age 9 and said, “Black Sabbath sounds like a bad name.” My dad replied, “Aaaww, they ain’t bad. That’s…
One of the greatest of all time. @OzzyOsbourne R.I.P. 💔
Every day this week I'll be posting about one of five Suffolk churches that I visited on a bike trip last Thursday. Today is the turn of St Mary's Buxhall. THREAD
The only Somali I ever knew worked in refugee resettlement and had at least two wives in Africa and one in the U.S.; he freqently asked my co-worker to be his wife. There was a book that came out about the refugee camp he’d lived in as a child, and he affirmed there had been an…
When Somalis first arrived in my area, the police had to hold a community meeting with them to explain it was not ok to unalive women and girls.
Ray Bradbury; maturity is a process of learning to embrace the passions that were bullied out of us