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Laugh, and the world laughs with you;     Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,     But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer;     Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound,     But shrink from […]

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. […]

I love this poem. We’ll begin with box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes. Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice, But […]

So I was just enjoying a cup of coffee tonight and thought how horrible it was that I had to make sure I finished it before it turned cold and that it cooled down really quick! I live in a tropical country and we’re having summer here, and yet the rate at which coffee in […]

“A learned man came to me once. He said, “I know the way, — come.” And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he […]

One thing I’ve realized recently is that I seem to leave a lot of ugly things hanging. For instance, if I decide to end a friendship or any kind of relationship because it has turned into something destructive, the joy that comes with being free of it often overrides any motivation to tie up loose […]

Amazing realizations in my study of Ecclesiastes (1:5-7) “There is danger in pressing the words in the Bible into a positive announcement of scientific fact, so marvelous are some of these correspondencies. But it is certainly a curious fact that Solomon should use language entirely consistent with discoveries such as evaporation and storm currents (vv. […]

Our lives are but fine weavings that God and we prepare Each life becomes a fabric planned and fashioned in His care We may not always see just how the weavings intertwine But we must trust the Master’s hand and follow His design For He can view the pattern upon the upper side While we […]

When we get our share of a good thing, whether it’s a person or an object or a dream, there sometimes appears an invisible switch in our mind that tells us to grab hold of it, hang on tightly, clench our fists around it and never let go. That, of course, is a normal and […]

a hymn by James M. Gray He sat by a fire of seven-fold heat, As He watched by the precious ore, And closer He bent with a searching gaze As He heated it more and more. He knew He had ore that could stand the test, And He wanted the finest gold To mould as […]