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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“Yes, of course you'll get back to Narnia again some day. Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things they say - even their looks - will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?”

And that is the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe.

But if the Professor was right it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.

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And it’s... over.

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A continuation of my thoughts on love

...aaand I don’t know how to add a read-more to this on mobile, so this is just going to be out in the world for everyone to see.

Why am I on mobile? My laptop is occupied, and I forgot my physical notebook.

Why is my laptop occupied? Someone in particular is reading my thesis.

I have a feeling Future Me is going to look back on this and think I’m an idiot. In terms of ridiculous things I’ve done this semester, it falls well below sitting in a creek and watching a Holy Thursday service from the outside in the rain. It’s just... dumb.

I think I called him Iñigo in my last entry on Love? Yeah, he’s sitting there. On my laptop. Reading my thesis because I had no better excuse to talk to him.

I figured I’d comment on the feelings as they happen while I have nothing better to do.

So... here goes.

They’re not as strong as they usually are. I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder, or, what I think is a more accurate translation, when someone isn’t in front of you it’s easy to imagine that they have characteristics that they don’t really have.

Still, I have a feeling that as soon as he’s gone I’ll start thinking about him again. Why?

It took a while, but I think I see him as a friend. So, I care about him.

Not sure how he’d feel about me turning him basically into an experiment though...

But! That very end when we were talking about not-science and what we wanted to do after undergrad! I liked that!

The only thing left to decide is if I was more excited about what I want to do with my life or getting to talk to him.

I have a feeling it was the former.

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fixed it

My part for the book the class is putting together.

Not gonna lie, I like how it turned out.

#thank you apple photos retouch tool

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My part for the book the class is putting together.

Not gonna lie, I like how it turned out.

#plus i learned a thing or two about butterflies in the process #OH CRAP THERE'S A TYPO

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wow

#context: reading swa 6 #which i just realized i still have to post

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“For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 17:20

#mountains have been showing up recently

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Mystic Mountain, Carina Nebula

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“I regret that ideologies lead us at times to two harmful errors. On the one hand, there is the error of those Christians who separate these Gospel demands from their personal relationship with the Lord, from their interior union with him, from openness to his grace. Christianity thus becomes a sort of NGO stripped of the luminous mysticism so evident in the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and many others. For these great saints, mental prayer, the love of God and the reading of the Gospel in no way detracted from their passionate and effective commitment to their neighbors; quite the opposite.”

-Pope Francis, 2018

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Amazing the effect it has when someone tells you they were thinking of you.

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why do people want to be like the early church so much?

#maybe i'll expand on this when hell fortnight is over

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three months on, and it still brings me to tears

#i add this to growing investigative folder titled 'is that love'

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well that was weird

not like uncomfortable weird, or strange weird, but...

“that’s-not-supposed-to-happen-but-it-is” weird

a calm weird, a comforting weird

the weird feeling I imagine is associated with serendipity

#yes im talking about dinner tonight #an interfaith dialogue about interfaith dialogue

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The Lord's descent into the underworld:

Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by my own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, you who were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated. For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden.

See on my face the spittle I received in order to restore to you the life I once breathed into you. See there the marks of the blows I received in order to refashion your warped nature in my image. On my back see the marks of the scourging I endured to remove the burden of sin that weighs upon your back. See my hands, nailed firmly to a tree, for you who once wickedly stretched out your hand to a tree.

I slept on the cross and a sword pierced my side for you who slept in paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side has healed the pain in yours. My sleep will rouse you from your sleep in hell. The sword that pierced me has sheathed the sword that was turned against you.

Rise, let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly paradise. I will not restore you to that paradise, but I will enthrone you in heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a symbol of life, but see, I who am life itself am now one with you. I appointed cherubim to guard you as slaves are guarded, but now I make them worship you as God. The throne formed by cherubim awaits you, its bearers swift and eager. The bridal chamber is adorned, the banquet is ready, the eternal dwelling places are prepared, the treasure houses of all good things lie open. The kingdom of heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity.

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Well, that was the stupidest thing I’ve done in a long time.

...but I don’t regret it.

Future me, this is what you wrote after walking in the pouring rain to the Altar of Repose, showing up 30 minutes early, walking around in the rain even more, and standing in the parking deck to watch the Mass from a distance.

It felt good, I hope you don’t get a cold from it.

#holy week

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“Yes, you’re here to bring them medical care, but you’re also bringing a smile and you’re bringing them love, which is just as important.”

-A 90 year old Spanish nun working in a children’s hospital

#i know i had nothing from my dr trip so here you go