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As autumn deepens across the peninsula, the days will grow shorter and shorter until the onset of winter, when the sun won’t rise at all for three months. The Iljaria call this long period of darkness Soul’s Rest, we Skaandans Gods’ Fall,
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“Elijah’s fear drove him to the point of being cared for by God, almost as a child—with food to eat, with a place to sleep, with a response to his cries. That’s the direction fear leads when it is leading us away from self-sufficiency and toward the gospel by which we stand. In those cases, fear is not just a reaction but a revelation.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
“As bad as your parents may be at their worst, they are the only parents you’ll ever have.”
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
― Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
“When I thought of my mother, it was always as a presence - a role, almost - and it was strange to be faced with a truth that should have been obvious, that she had been someone with her own dreams and aspirations, who had felt the same as I had, and who had once had a life that existed entirely outside of her relationship to me.”
― The Shadows
― The Shadows
“The pattern is fear leading to a word of consolation leading to a revelation.”
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
― The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
“In ancient Egypt, the eel was considered a might demon, an equal of gods and a forbidden food. A creature moving effortlessly beneath the glittering surface of the holy Nile, slithering through the sediments of existence itself. Archaeologists have found mummified eels in tiny sarcophagi, laid to their eternal rest next to bronze statuettes of the gods.”
― The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
― The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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