November 21, 2015

Fun in the Leaves

There aren't many good reasons for having four silver maples, but this is definitely one...

November 17, 2015

After the Funeral - Agatha Christie

"Not that Poirot was really looking for evidence - he wanted only to satisfy himself as to possibilities. The murder of Richard Abernathie could only be a hypothesis. It was Cora Lansquenet's murder for which evidence was needed. What he wanted was to study the people who have been assembled for the funeral that day, and to form his own conclusions about them." - Pg. 164-165

I am always amazed at how Agatha Christie is able to come up with a different approach to each of her books. In After the Funeral, she is able to develop a tale where the evidence is merely the characters themselves.  There are a few pieces of traditional evidence,  but by in large, she uses them as distractions. 

October 31, 2015

We will not be denied any good thing in Christ

"Surely if he would not spare his own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan,  one  circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that he should, after this, deny or withhold from his people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them."

-  John Flavel

"He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,  how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? "

- Romans 8:32

October 27, 2015

From the honest pen of Isaac Watts

How long wilt Thou conceal Thy face?
        My God, how long delay?
    When shall I feel those heav’nly rays
        That chase my fears away?
    How long shall my poor laboring soul
        Wrestle and toil in vain?
    Thy word can all my foes control
        And ease my raging pain.

- Isaac Watts