It is a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy that is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people are the Christians - and I am one of them.
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book 2, Chapter 5, describing Sydney Carton
Praise God we can escape our incapability to help ourselves, by running to Jesus, who made us and saves us from ourselves, to His glory!
... the really funny part is that I'm just writing a post about all the fun I had with him! But it's not on my xanga... it's on opckid.reformedblogs.com. It ought to be up later tonight. I really did enjoy having him around (although neither Abby or David had told me that he was coming!) and he w
I think that Ben had a fine time at camp! I had a great time with him!
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