On a brighter note...

Perfect example of the nature of life--some days, like yesterday, seem cloudy and drear, but then the clouds part and the sun comes out again: a cousin of mine had her baby, plus another friend who had breast cancer got her test results back and she's cancer free!


To bring this back to Tolkien ... and can't everything eventually be brought back to Tolkien? *grin ... I think that's one of the things I so like about his works, especially LOTR: he recognized the ebb and flow of life, that while happiness comes and goes, so also does sorrow, and hope provides the strength to endure and overcome evil times. And I think that's what so draws me to the Aragorn character--he seems the embodiment of the entire "keep moving forward despite how bleak life looks, because there is always hope" theme, even though he occasionally has doubts. There's a Bible verse that's one of my favorites--"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. " Hope and faith are bound up tightly to one another--you can't have faith without hope to give reason for such faith, nor can you have hope without the faith that somehow what you hope for will come to pass.

Now if I can just get my emotions to remember that from day to day! 

On a brighter note...

Perfect example of the nature of life--some days, like yesterday, seem cloudy and drear, but then the clouds part and the sun comes out again: a cousin of mine had her baby, plus another friend who had breast cancer got her test results back and she's cancer free!


To bring this back to Tolkien ... and can't everything eventually be brought back to Tolkien? *grin ... I think that's one of the things I so like about his works, especially LOTR: he recognized the ebb and flow of life, that while happiness comes and goes, so also does sorrow, and hope provides the strength to endure and overcome evil times. And I think that's what so draws me to the Aragorn character--he seems the embodiment of the entire "keep moving forward despite how bleak life looks, because there is always hope" theme, even though he occasionally has doubts. There's a Bible verse that's one of my favorites--"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. " Hope and faith are bound up tightly to one another--you can't have faith without hope to give reason for such faith, nor can you have hope without the faith that somehow what you hope for will come to pass.

Now if I can just get my emotions to remember that from day to day! 

On a brighter note...

Perfect example of the nature of life--some days, like yesterday, seem cloudy and drear, but then the clouds part and the sun comes out again: a cousin of mine had her baby, plus another friend who had breast cancer got her test results back and she's cancer free!


To bring this back to Tolkien ... and can't everything eventually be brought back to Tolkien? *grin ... I think that's one of the things I so like about his works, especially LOTR: he recognized the ebb and flow of life, that while happiness comes and goes, so also does sorrow, and hope provides the strength to endure and overcome evil times. And I think that's what so draws me to the Aragorn character--he seems the embodiment of the entire "keep moving forward despite how bleak life looks, because there is always hope" theme, even though he occasionally has doubts. There's a Bible verse that's one of my favorites--"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. " Hope and faith are bound up tightly to one another--you can't have faith without hope to give reason for such faith, nor can you have hope without the faith that somehow what you hope for will come to pass.

Now if I can just get my emotions to remember that from day to day! 

I love a good bargain!

Hit the used book store this morning and got The Silm in hardback, The Hobbit in hardback, and Unfinished Tales in a large-size paperback, all for only $15!   Now I just need to find the time to actually read them.

I love a good bargain!

Hit the used book store this morning and got The Silm in hardback, The Hobbit in hardback, and Unfinished Tales in a large-size paperback, all for only $15!   Now I just need to find the time to actually read them.

I love a good bargain!

Hit the used book store this morning and got The Silm in hardback, The Hobbit in hardback, and Unfinished Tales in a large-size paperback, all for only $15!   Now I just need to find the time to actually read them.