God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. --Vance Havner, Leadership, Vol. 4, no. 1.

Go for broke.

Shortly after five this morning, outlines in the bedroom sharpened as the light began to appear. The days are lengthening. In early September, the bougainvilleas burst into bloom and gradually their color faded into green. The ipês have also come and gone; a single yellow flower hangs on to the tree in our front yard. These harbingers of lushness will now give way to the explosion of breathing green with the regular rains.

If you're into tatoos and such extreme thing, why not tatoo this on your forehead?

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions -- which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. --St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Ponder long and well this quote:

Another age may learn to look upon our use of activities much as we look upon the use of the sword by an earlier age. Because in them money takes so prominent a place, ours may one day be known as the age of financial Christianity, just as we look upon that earlier age as the age of military Christianity. As we regard the sword, so a later age may regard money. It may learn the wisdom of the Apostle and decline to use such an ambiguous weapon. If the sword was an ambiguous weapon which might easily confuse the issue, money, and activities which depend upon money, are not less ambiguous and may as easily confuse the issue. The time is not yet full. We have yet to learn the consequences of our use of money. --Roland Allen, Mission Activities (1927)

Doesn't look like we've made much progress on this one yet.

"There is no present or future -- only the past, happening over and over again -- now." --Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten

I would say this is a good comment on what happens when there is no forgetting, as Tillich says (see previous entry).