CowPi Journal

2 January 2012

I’m seven squared today.

Thank you, God.

It’s a beautiful day.

I have things to do, people to meet, and smiles to smile.

Tags: birthday

2 January 2012

As I rise from sleep, I thank You, O Holy Trinity, for through Your great goodness and patience You have not been angry with me, an idler and sinner, nor have You destroyed me with mine iniquities, but has shown Your usual love for mankind; and when I was prostrate in despair, You have raised me up to keep the morning watch and glorify Your power. And now enlighten my mind’s eye, and open my mouth that I may meditate on Your words, and understand Your commandments, and do Your will, and hymn You in heartfelt confession, and sing praises to Your all-holy name: of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

O Come, let us worship God, our King.

O Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King and God.

O Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ himself, our King and God.

Tags: prayer

10 December 2011

An awesome song called “Into the Wild” powerfully sung by L.P. (Laura Pergolizzi). Links to listen to song and artist’s webpage.

Are we on the lonely side
Say oh now the past long away
Are we so lost in the dark of our hearts
That oh-oh-oh-oh there’s no light of day, no-oh-oh
No-oh-oh-oh

One, two, three, four

Somebody left the gate open
You know we got lost on the way
Come save us, a runaway train, gone insane
How do we, how do we not fade?
How do we, how do we, how do we not fade away?
How do we, how do we all fall
Into the wild
How are we livin’, livin’, livin’
Into the wild
How are we livin’, livin’, livin’
Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh, hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey-hey

Oh please believe me I’m more scared than not
That oh-oh-oh-oh this isn’t the way
And please be there, I can barely hang on
But whoa-oh-oh I’ll wait ‘til I break, yeah-hey-hey-hey
Yeah-hey-hey-hey

Somebody left the gate open
You know we got lost on the way
Come save us, a runaway train, gone insane
How do we, how do we not fade?
How do we, how do we, how do we not fade away?
How do we, how do we all fall
Into the wild
How are we livin’, livin’, livin’
Into the wild
How are we livin’, livin’, livin’
Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh, hey-hey-hey, hey-hey-hey-hey

Tags: lyrics

30 October 2011

Experience of life: its routines; the workaday world;
home leisure, reassuring in their way, buttress 
our sense of life’s rational elements, its continuity 
upholding our need for a beginning, a middle, and an end, 
and awareness of place along the line, holding off conflicts 
that bear no resolution: the creep of illness and indifference; 
the shadow of death; the forces of chaos at the unwelcome 
perimeter, where we mightily struggle to keep them. 
And yet, and yet, the flicker of delight across the broad 
brow and heaven is full of laughter of chaos: unexpected, 
whimsical, even dangerous unto death. Such chaos, to be 
viable as the spark of life, has been disarmed—or at least 
held back, so we may absorb the humor, drink deeply of the 
absurd, and emerge revived and refreshed: with fears, with 
life led to edge of exhaustion, to the place of the void; 
restrained, firmly restrained, I suspect by the love of God.

— William W. Runyeon

Tags: chaos, God, heaven, life, love, poem

14 June 2011

Nowhere other than looking at himself in the mirror of the Cross can man better understand how much he is worth.

— St. Anthony of Padua

Tags: awareness, human nature, reflection, The Cross, worth