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Sender: Girl
06 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Work
A package arrived for someone today requiring COD. That is Cash on Delivery. As usual I checked who it was from and going to, just to make sure it’s something we’re happy to pay for.
The sender was listed solely as: “Girl”
What? Thought I. Who’s girl? What’s going on here… People can’t just send stuff to people saying that it’s from girl. What girl? There are so many of them!
On closer inspection however, I noticed a stamp which read “Girl Skateboarding Company, Inc.” Ahh well. Mystery solved.
Some notes from the master
06 years ago
“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act – that is, to watch a girl undress on stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowely lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop, or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?”
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“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more imporant still…
…We learn, on one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.”
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“If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self, and the Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither.”
- C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”
USPS
06 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Work
Here’s one for the anal historian.
I have in my hands an appeal letter that TACF sent out regarding SARS. The letter is dated May 15th, 2003. It arrived marked “Return to Sender,” yesterday. It has stamps dated June 10 2003, 17 March 2005, and April 27 2005.
I tip my hat the United States Postal Service. I can only assume it fell behind someone’s desk somewhere and was recently found, and someone thought, “Well, better late than never.” Either that, or it’s been bouncing around the US postal system for 2 years. Each option is equally likely.
Nuggets
06 years ago
I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go
—Jeremiah 45:5
“This is the firm and immovable secret of the Lord to those who trust Him— “I will give your life to you . . . .” What more does a man want than his life? It is the essential thing. “. . . your life . . . as a prize . . .” means that wherever you may go, even if it is into hell, you will come out with your life and nothing can harm it. So many of us are caught up in exhibiting things for others to see, not showing off property and possessions, but our blessings. All these things that we so proudly show have to go. But there is something greater that can never go— the life that “is hidden with Christ in God” ( Colossians 3:3 ).
Are you prepared to let God take you into total oneness with Himself, paying no more attention to what you call the great things of life? Are you prepared to surrender totally and let go? The true test of abandonment or surrender is in refusing to say, “Well, what about this?” Beware of your own ideas and speculations. The moment you allow yourself to think, “What about this?” you show that you have not surrendered and that you do not really trust God. But once you do surrender, you will no longer think about what God is going to do. Abandonment means to refuse yourself the luxury of asking any questions. If you totally abandon yourself to God, He immediately says to you, “I will give your life to you as a prize . . . .” The reason people are tired of life is that God has not given them anything— they have not been given their life “as a prize.” The way to get out of that condition is to abandon yourself to God. And once you do get to the point of total surrender to Him, you will be the most surprised and delighted person on earth. God will have you absolutely, without any limitations, and He will have given you your life. If you are not there, it is either because of disobedience in your life or your refusal to be simple enough.”
- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
“…I think that’s because you can reason with your brain. You can logic it into believing something. But your heart believes whatever the heck it wants to believe. That’s why you have to repeat things outloud over and over again, to drill it in, like, “God loves me and he provides for me, God loves me and he provides for me, God loves me and he provides for me…”
- Jonathan Puddle, May 2005
“Things aren’t always what they seem, expecially when they seem like what they are. Here on Strangerhood Lane, the residents were finding out that it’s hard to find things outside your residence. That’s because sometimes the out of place, is in exactly the place it should be.”
- Nikki, The Strangerhood, Episode 6
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