Hold tight

An incredible PSA from the UK:

(HT: Life is but a dream via Dale via Shannon.)

Coming in like that

Lion? Lamb? Surely today will tell.
While you’re waiting to find out, have a listen to this month’s music picks.

Avett Brothers: Kick Drum Heart
Blitzen Trapper: Furr
Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes: Warm and Safe

With the sun

It’s true that the morning brings perspective. The monsters under the bed have disappeared. The strange noises become recognizable. The nightmares fade away and are forgotten. Sunrise brings another beginning.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this You will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.
(Thomas Merton)

Death or something like it

These may shorten your lifespan … but add to your life quality!
Do you have any others to suggest?

Death in a pan
4 Mars® bars
1/4-1/3 c. butter (or brick margarine)
5-6 c. Rice Krispies® or Corn Flakes®

1) Melt chocolate bars with butter over low heat or in microwave, stirring every 15-30 seconds.
2) Add cereal. Don’t worry about crushing some of it.
3) Press into light greased 9×9 pan.
4) Cool. Slice into small pieces. Enjoy.

Heart Attack Potatoes
1) Boil peeled potatoes with cloves of garlic. Remove garlic after boiling.
2) Mash potatoes with butter, sour cream (1/2 c. or more) and cream cheese (8 oz).
2.5) Feeling daring? Add fried bacon – crumbled.
3) Whip.
4) Serve and enjoy.

Results

Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.

As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.

—Thomas Merton, in a letter to Jim Forest dated February 21, 1966