... my past. I want to be your child from now on.” Mary said that she felt an immediate release, as if a huge burden had been lifted from her shoulders. But within a day or so, the Lord mad it clear to Mary that she needed to confess to several other people. So, she called ... our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive our sin and to cleanse from us all unrighteousness. My favorite Ernest Hemingway story comes from his novel, “The Capital of the World.” He tells about a father and son in Spain who did ...
... comes, we let our all too-abundant self concern for safety and security rob us of the ability to act in love. In Hemingway's book, A Farewell To Arms, the author describes two soldiers talking. One is a much-decorated hero, a shell-shocked remnant of ... Ray a newspaper clipping that showed how the people of a little town in Germany named Kleve were rebuilding the Church of St. Mary that had been bombed during the war. Something triggered in Ray's memory. He found his old logbook in the attic, and suddenly ...
... a date with his girl, "Have a good time, son." The boy angrily and belligerently retorted, "Don't tell me what to do!" Ernest Hemingway wrote, "The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the broken places." So let us learn from our pain, and become ... wondrous reminder? Thomas Ken was a bishop in the Anglican Church, but is not remembered for that. He was once chaplain to Princess Mary at The Hague, but he is not remembered for that. He was once imprisoned in the Tower of London, but he is not ...
... Eve through Christmas Day. But the sappy sentimentality of those shows doesn’t fill the hole in our soul. Ernest Hemingway called sentimentality “an emotion you don’t have to pay for.” The real emotions of a real Advent season are ... A Wrinkle In Time author) wrote that when it comes to Christmas This is the irrational season When love blooms bright and wild For if Mary had been filled with reason There’d have been no room for the child. Advent is the irrational season, when we don’t let our ...
Some literature students at the University of Chicago once asked Ernest Hemingway what hidden meanings were in his stories. He merely shrugged and said he didn't know of any and ... and who did so well that they became leading actresses themselves. They prepared themselves in advance. It is the same in our relationship with God. It is told of Queen Mary of Orange that when she was dying, her chaplain came to speak to her about her relationship with God. "My friend," she answered gently, "I did not leave such ...
