Category: The Bookshelf
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World Cancer Day
Midnight Cancer is a bottomless pit where voices echo around and around endlessly repeating the same prayer: oh God… Sooner or later, midnight cancer changes to morning cancer, brighter, more hopeful. Somewhere in the sun rises warm and round. Birds are singing. After a while, morning cancer melts into afternoon cancer where it hides among […]
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Midnight Cancer
Midnight Cancer is a bottomless pit where voices echo around and around endlessly repeating the same prayer: oh God… Sooner or later, midnight cancer changes to morning cancer, brighter, more hopeful. Somewhere in the sun rises warm and round. Birds are singing. After a while, morning cancer melts into afternoon cancer where it hides among […]
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Christmas Magic
No…there is no Santa Claus. At least not in the way [we] have been led to believe. Usually the truth hurts, but in this case it is much more wonderful. We’re all Santas, you see. We all have magic. The pretend Santa gets to work only one day a year. But we, the real ones, […]
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The Giant Doesn’t Win
[Despair] beat them once more, and they laid all day in their dark prison, crying together and wondering whether their troubles would ever come to an end… [Christian had been given] the little key, which was called the Key of Promise, but in his trouble he had forgotten all about it. Neither [Christian] or Hopeful […]
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Let Us Trust in Him and Wait a Little Longer
Despair was a terrible looking man, with shaggy hair and beard and clothes made of the rough skin of wild beasts…He drove [the pilgrims] before him across the fields to his house, which was called Doubting Castle and put them in a dark dungeon, locking the door behind him. All day and all night they […]
A Spring of Joy 