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One of the most beautiful and sad songs I have ever heard.

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day

Golden rod and the 4-H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone

Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car to the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry

In the morning through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading

Oh the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth

Tuesday night at the bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens

I remember at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse

In the morning at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared

Oh the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you

Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I find the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother

On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom

In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing

Oh the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see His face
In the morning in the window

Oh the glory when He took our place
But He took my shoulders and He shook my face
And He takes and He takes and He takes

Mecury thermometers are not for bunsen burners,
and fingers are not for heating mantles.

Yesterday morning I thought I would leave for uni early to have a long and productive day. Not long into the cycle I was crusing through Tory St remembering I needed to email such and such about this and that. Suddenly this van turns right right into my path. The rest is a bit sketchy as we both slammed on our breaks before I was thrown into the vehicle taking most of the impact with my right shoulder. I sat down on the road for second, feeling the pain build up before hopping to the foot path.
The driver quickly came to my aid and was very apologetic. He said he had not seen me until it was too late. Nausia arrived soon after. He took me and my bike to the A&E. On the way he informed me of his earlier narrow escape. Earlier that very morning, after he had just hopped out of his larger van to get something, a truck smahed into it, demolishing it(maybe he was still in shock when he took me out).
After a short wait, 2 panadol and a couple of x-rays I was sent packing with a sling to carry my rather sore but not fractured shoulder. I was kindly picked up by Emma's boyfriend Brendon and finally arrived at uni 1.5 hrs than I normally do. I am now handicapped from the lab until I can stretch out my arm again.
The moral of the story is: don't bother trying to be early. Or perhaps this was just an answer to an unrequested prayer, for I was going to see the doctor about this very shoulder the next day anyhow and couldn't think of an accident to attribute to it for ACC. Now I can!

I fought the van and the van won.

Lesslie Newbigin, The Finality of Christ (via RD)

It has become customary to classify views on the relation of Christianity to the world religions as either pluralist, exclusivist, or inclusivist... [My] position is exclusivist in the sense that it affirms the unique truth of the revelation in Jesus Christ, but it is not exclusivist in the sense of denying the possibility of the salvation of the non-Christian. It is inclusivist in the sense that it refuses to limit the saving grace of God to the members of the Christian church, but it rejects the inclusivism which regards the non-Christian religions as vehicles of salvation. It is pluralist in the sense of acknowledging the gracious work of God in the lives of all human beings, but it rejects a pluralism which denies the uniqueness and decisiveness of what God has done in Jesus Christ.