August Ninth

Today...

Up: The clouds & sunshine interplayed for a splendid view.
Down: It was stiflingly hot.

Up: I enjoyed a delicious cup of coffee this morning.
Down: I had to wake up at 6:00 am.

Up: I talked to my ever-so-kind man on the phone.
Down: I couldn't talk to him for hours.

Up: I really love my job.
Down: I questioned my love for my job.

Up: Deas Vail is playing in the background.
Down: I don't know the words to all of the songs.
(This aggravates me.)

Up: I was in my pajamas at 6:00 pm.
Down: I did not go to sleep at 6:00 pm.

Up: I had good intentions of calling some friends.
Down: I never called those friends.

Up: God has been quietly making
conversation with me...All day long.
Down:

David said it twice:
"Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be all over the earth."
Psalm 57:5 & 11












(P.C.: Google Images)
:// Take me to Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach, please.

The sea is calm to-night.

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; —on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

...

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help from pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.