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Sunday Inspiration: Mystery
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.
—Albert Einstein
Sunday Inspiration: Courage
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
—Nelson Mandela
World’s Largest Gingerbread House
The community of Bryan, Texas has constructed a gingerbread house Guiness-certified as the largest in the world. The project is now being used as a tourist attraction to fund a new facility to for the trauma program at nearby St. Joseph Health System.
The 39,201.8-cubic-foot structure was built on the grounds of the Texas A&M Traditions Club. It is nearly 3,000 cubic feet larger than the previous record holder built in 2006 at the Mall of America in Minnesota.
Other than requiring a tarp to protect it from the elements, the only drawback is the bees: a cluster of about 2,000 bees has moved in to avail themselves of the free sugar.
Sunday Inspiration: Commencement
“Make good art.”
Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts (Phl) on Vimeo.
In Memoriam Clive Staples Lewis
As the world remembers today the 50th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy, let us also remember that C. S. Lewis—writer, poet, theologian, and myth-maker—also died on November 22, 1963. Only an hour before President Kennedy died, Lewis also began, in his words, “Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read”:
And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
Simon Usborne interviewed Lewis’s stepson, Douglas Gresham about his memories of the man.
Here is a reflection focusing on Lewis as a person of faith.
Sunday Inspiration: Imagination
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
—C. S. Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: Appearances
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
—Bilbo Baggins (via J. R. R. Tolkien)
Sunday Inspiration: Choices
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
—Albus Dumbledore (via J. K. Rowling)
Sunday Inspiration: Enemies
“Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies [in real life], let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
—C. S. Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: Dragons
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
—G. K. Chesterton
Darrell J. Pursiful 