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Part two of Stolen Trust is here!!!! Is the bite from the apple the end of Nixalba? https://beautytwicetold.substack.com/...

A lamenting yet hopeful prayer about God’s faithfulness in the storm from Alex Rollins. https://beautytwicetold.substack.com/...

Stolen Trust is live! A retelling of Snow White but she has siblings…who is the traitor and who is tricked? https://beautytwicetold.substack.com/...

One of my favorite posts yet! This was a story that I wrote a few years ago and found in the graveyard of my Google Docs. I did a ton of editing and this is what you have before you today! https://beautytwicetold.substack.com/...

“To build may be the slow and laborious task of years; to destroy may be the thoughtless act of a day.” —Winston Churchill

I wrote a story based on this quote which you can find here: https://beautytwicetold.substack.com/...

Enjoy!

The Vessel’s Demise:
In which ships collide, a course is changed, and sibling reunite—for better or for worse⚡️. You can read my short story here: https://beautytwicetold.substack.com/....

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen—which is (apparently) much easier.

“To subdue is, therefore, not to control and command, but to put everything in its proper place-to give everything its subordinate value or due; to order everything hierarchically, so that the properties of attention and action can be established; and to place things so that the world is no longer mere potential or disorder.”

Hey friends!

Over the new year my sister and I started a blog called Beauty Twice Told. In a culture that often disfigures what beauty actually means, we have a vision to create art and write stories that remembers what true beauty is and that glorifies God. You can check it out here: https://beautytwicetold.substack.com and support our work by subscribing and sharing. Thank you!

I’m finally reading this book!!!!

Cooking is best approached from wherever you find yourself when you are hungry and should extend long past the end of the page. There should be serving and also eating and storing away what’s left; there should be looking at meals’ remainders with interest and imagining all the good things they will become.

This book is hilarious! I love the author's voice and am enjoying learning about science behind my food...both healthy and unhealthy.

I got this book for Christmas and just had to read it again!

Just as the alchemist’s ambition was to discover God’s laws for “perfecting” iron into gold, the learned composer’s job was to attempt to replicate in earthly music the celestial harmony with which God had joined and imbued the universe, and so in a way to take part in the act of Creation itself.

I feel like I've been rereading a lot of books lately and should probably read a new one but I love this one so much!

We love to see characters transform. Mainly because we are being transformed. We know the painful but liberating feeling of ceasing to be one way and beginning to be another.

“Why do we not all honour one another? Because
our vision is blinded by a graven image of ourselves. We are so taken
up with thinking about ourselves that we cannot see the beauty in those
about us”

Reading well is an act of virtue, or excellence, and it is also a habit that cultivates more virtue in return.

The Christian view of the well-ordered soul identifies how to have all parts of the soul in proper order: by first loving God with all one’s heart, soul, strength, and mind. Justice concerns the right ordering of not only the relationships within a community but also the parts of a person’s soul

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

“The sure way of guarding ourselves from self-pity is to think about others. Be quick to discern their pains and sufferings, and be ready to bring help. We cannot be absorbed in thinking of two things at the same time, and if our minds are occupied with others, far and near, at home and abroad, we shall have neither time nor inclination to be sorry for ourselves.”

“The sure way of guarding ourselves from self-pity is to think about others. Be quick to discern their pains and sufferings, and be ready to bring help. We cannot be absorbed in thinking of two things at the same time, and if our minds are occupied with others, far and near, at home and abroad, we shall have neither time nor inclination to be sorry for ourselves.”

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

Imagination tells us things about human life that we don’t get any other way-Northrop Frye

Imagination is an act of hope, a challenge to fate, an effort to take matters in hand and to accept our unique role as human beings-Janine Langan

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with a renewed understanding of it and zest because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.-Leland Ryken

As image-bearer of God man possesses the possibility to create something beautiful and to delight in it. -Abraham Kuyper