From the looks of it, it appears that I enjoy my aquarium-keeping hobby too much.

You must know, however, that in an instant I would shatter all the glass in my room for you.

[Watching seahorses on TV]

All : Ooooh, nice.

Brother : Oh, whatever. Uhmma, you wanna eat that huh?

Uhmma: With Gochoojjang

Brother: Damn Koreans.

[Baby fish series on TV]

Uhmma: Ooh, ggongchi! We can make jjigae.

Brother: You want to eat everything on this show.

[Fish breeding]

Sister: Ewwwwww, we eat that in sushi.

C.S. Lewis on George Herbert

"Here was a man who seemed to me to excel all the authors I had read in conveying the very quality of life as we live it from moment to moment, but the wretched fellow, instead of doing it all directly, insisted on mediating it through what I still would have called the "Christian mythology." The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed, "Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores."

John Piper on William Cowper

From the standpoint of adventure or politics or public engagement his life was utterly uneventful. The kind of life no child would ever choose to read about. But for those of us who are older we have come to see that the events of the soul are probably the most important events in life. And the battles in this man's soul were of epic proportions.

Tell me what's important.

Renunciate.

Never feel sorry for a Christian who has gone to sleep.
Because it is likely he is shaking the heavens with mighty laughter.

I hold my breath

This is how I keep things in

If I exhale

I swear I'll lose it

The dams will rupture

and my spine will break

it will all fall

like a million pennies

on the kitchen floor.

God is in the business of restoration.

Even, or perhaps especially, in the most dire of situation and circumstances that heart and feet take you.

See, look. There it goes. That shriveling thing. Yeah, there it goes writhing. Like a wet worm on a hot sidewalk. It burns and squirms. There it is, drying up into a corpse. It's almost there. My soul. Leave it be. Turn away, it's starting to get ugly. Plug your ears. Don't hear it scream. It will curl your veins into knots. Boy, it doesn't go without a fight. There it goes trying to drag its body and muster it up into being again. Useless. Hopeless. How sad. Leave it be. Just turn away.

Fireproof

This movie is deep, son.

Watch

and learn

what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

This is my resolution:

to live life on the brink of tears

on the precipice of death due to persecution

for doing right, nothing just,

just the unjust

doing what they think is right

i will stand

but i just won't stand

i'll go

i'll run into the arms of danger

with my arms ready to embrace, to love

wielding love like a dagger

swiftly making surgical cuts

severing evil from the root

from the heart, the wellspring

it will hurt and offend

i am sure

the proud do not accept kindness so willingly

but what else can you do

but run with tears in your eyes

into the heart of darkness

to shoot love from your mouth

and emit light from your irises

let it creep

let it wander

it will end up somewhere

let loose the reigns

close your eyes

you'll go somewhere

but it won't be no place good.