Tag Archives: C.S. Lewis

The Pause That Refreshes


“TRAVEL, like life, is best understood backward but must be experienced forward, to paraphrase Kierkegaard. After decades of wandering, only now does a pattern emerge. I’m drawn to places that beguile and inspire, sedate and stir, places where, for a … Continue reading

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Life is But a Dream


Do you dream?  Daydreams? Night dreams? Have you ever tried to go back to sleep to finish a dream because you so wanted to know the end? Or dreamt a nightmare so fearful that sleep itself was full of terror? … Continue reading

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Listen to the Falling Rain – On Libraries, Reading, and the Magic of Books


Listen to the falling rain, Listen to it fall, And with every drop of rain I can hear you call.” (Jose Feliciano) Today, unusual for North Carolina, has been a grey day of ongoing gentle rain. It has made me think. To me … Continue reading

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Down in the Valley, the Valley So Low…


I have been through the valley of weeping The valley of sorrow and pain But the “God of all comfort,” was with me To comfort, to hold and sustain. As the earth needs clouds and sunshine, Our souls need both … Continue reading

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