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And I thought how easy life is for those who merely live it without hoping to understand it; without hoping to “decode,” classify and analyze it; without hoping to acquire a quasi-invulnerable meta-life which is the life of the mind and not the triumphant life of the body. Breathe in, breathe out.
High Crime Area
Joyce Carol Oates
Like ad orientem prayer, Epiphany originally had a connection to the rising sun; Syrian Christians of the second century called it denho (the up-going) and connected it with Zechariah’s prophecy at the birth of John the Baptist: “And you, child . . . will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins . . . when the day shall dawn upon us from on high” (Luke 7:76a, 77–78). That Christmas itself was still practically unknown can be deduced by its absence on the preserved listings of early Christian feasts, such as those of Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Clement of Alexandria (all of which include Epiphany).
The Apostasy That Wasn't
Rod Bennett
I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle
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