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Bigger Than Life

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." -Khalil Gabran

From Grief to Glory

Decadence Again the templed forest Is changed to haunts of gloom, It's vesture, drooping, dying, A garment for the tomb. And I must leave you mourning, When death would bring you grief. For I'm the fleeting summer And you are the fading leaf. Love in Grief O love, so brief appearing Within a summer day, As rapture in the temple Whose colonnades are clay. O love and loved in sorrow Lie fallow and forlorn While God prepares the morrow, The endless wedding morn.

Pagan Symbolism - Modern Public Health Issue

"Cinderella dressed in yella, Went upstairs to kiss a fella, Made a mistake and kissed a snake. How many doctors did it take 1, 2, 3, . . . ."

From St. Olaf

O day full of grace, which we behold, Now gently to view ascending; Thou over the earth thy reign unfold, Good cheer to all mortals lending, That children of light in every clime May prove that the night is ending. How blest was that gracious midnight hour, When God in our flesh was given; Then flushed the dawn with light and power, That spread o’er the darkened heaven; Then rose o’er the world that sun divine Which gloom from our hearts hath driven. Yea, were every tree endowed with speech, And every leaflet singing, They never with praise God’s worth could reach, Though earth with their praise were ringing. Who fully could praise the light of life Who