The Dannellys

I’m pretty sure the rule is never, ever, ever…

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:35:52 -0400

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I’m pretty sure the rule is never, ever, ever…

#5

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:23:00 -0400

A useful skill as it is, saying your wife has the nose of a bloodhound is apparently in no way endearing.

Spent a week in Kansas City being pressed, refined, and inspired...

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:01:42 -0400

Spent a week in Kansas City being pressed, refined, and inspired live out the Gospel. Definitely a defining period in my walk with my savior.

#44

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:55:02 -0400

You’ve lost control of the Netflix account when the “recommended for you” starts displaying children’s cartoons like Rugrats.

Set aside everything for five minutes and Worship our Savior.

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:19:04 -0400

Set aside everything for five minutes and Worship our Savior.

Just a beautiful reminder of God’s covenant, and that if...

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:13:33 -0400

Just a beautiful reminder of God’s covenant, and that if you had a canvas like creation it would pale in comparison.

-j

#92

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:38:30 -0400

There are simply no acceptable places to cut ones fingernails indoors.

As part of my contemporary literature class this summer, I had to read Annie Proulx’s The...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:09:00 -0400

As part of my contemporary literature class this summer, I had to read Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News. The novel was, for the most part, heartbreaking. Tales of shipwrecks and wounded fishermen. Women who killed their husbands and abandoned their families. Children who were lost or sick. People who died. Homes that were destroyed.

In spite of all this devastation, the ending of the novel was beautiful. After struggling to define his faith in God, happiness, purpose, and love, the story’s protagonist experienced a kind of joy that he could not comprehend. The narrator concluded the novel by saying:

“For if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat’s blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid ocean, it may happen that crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

I like the idea expressed here—that of believing in the seemingly impossible, the concept of a faith that sometimes takes precedence over logic or statistics. I experience that kind of faith every day, and it is at times indescribable. As the novel ended I found myself saying a little prayer. “Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you’ve given me. Thank you for allowing me to experience a love free of pain and misery: your love. Thank you for a wonderful husband. Thank you for happiness. Thank you for miracles.”

No, I didn’t garner any relevant final paper topics from The Shipping News. I was given, instead, a much needed reminder of just how blessed I truly am, along with an irrepressible urge to take heart and believe in the impossible.

~ Ash

"Be joyful always; Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will..."

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:02:00 -0400

““Be joyful always; Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.”

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Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:11:11 -0400