A gem from Camus

A GEM OF CAMUS

"Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world.  Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.  It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.  … In a world threatened by disintegration, in which our grand inquisitors run the risk of establishing forever the kingdom of death, it knows that it should, in an insane race against the clock, restore among the nations a peace that is not servitude, reconcile anew labour and culture, and remake with all men the Ark of the Covenant."  - Albert Camus, December 1957

A Tribute to Star Whitney

A shooting star came for a moment to this Earth plane.
The die was cast: 48 years she was destined to remain.
In all her ways and in her voyage here, she was no plain Jane
Parts of her compartmentalized life was not at all sane.
She was strong to come back to her right mind again,

From somewhere in the night when she got into a fight
with a strong enemy who slithered in to steal her light.
Darkness bound her deeper over time and overcame her might
The anchor asked her in a television interview one night,

What she wanted. Whitney Houston asked for prayer.
It sank deeply into my heart, with hers.  I was right there.
From that night unto now I take Whitney everywhere.
That urge to prayer for her is deep-rooted, like my hair.

As was Samuel's request on his stone that the world
not judge harshly while assuming they knew not what, Whitney's
Angel would ask the same on her behalf.  (http://bit.ly/IOMR7K).  
No troubles befell either of them that is not common to humankind:
Touch the released Spirits with kindness that have bowed out
prior to us.  They are the experienced cloud of witnesses that
have gone on to become our help in times of need.

Grace is so much more

God's Grace is so much higher and deeper, wider and longer, than anything we know.  But we should strive for it, for it is oh so strait a Gate. It is true that God giveth more grace - he giveth it to those who WILL, that is, those who do the work of Grace.  Those are the ones God gives more grace to. Thus Grace truly is a course worth learning by doing it if we know what it is, and seeking it out if we don't really know what Grace is.  Yes, God is so much more.