Re-Learning My Relationship With God

The closest analogy of “progress” with my relationship with God would be that as a man climbing a ladder to a roof of a house. Every day that would pass where I wouldn’t lose my temper or didn’t indulge my mind in lustful thoughts would be the equivalent of moving up [...]

Teach me, O God, so to use all the circumstances of my life today that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin. Let me use disappointment and material for patience. Let me use success as material for thankfulness. let me use trouble as material for perseverance. [...]

“The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.”

At the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. there is a large wooden altar from a synagogue that was vandalized by Nazi soldiers who had come to remove the Jewish citizens of the city. Across the altar is a single phrase of Hebrew carved deeply into the wood. Though it bears the hack marks of axes [...]

The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, aka (mercifully) ESO, has released an impressive image of the Helix Nebula captured by La Silla Observatory in Chile. The nebula, lying at around 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, has quickly been dubbed the “Eye of God”, for obvious reasons.
Beautiful.