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The Verse of the Day for Sunday May 24th 2026 @ https://theverseoftheday.info/en/daily-devotion/2026/05/24 #devotion

The Verse of the Day for Sunday May 24th 2026 @ https://theverseoftheday.info/en/daily-devotion/2026/05/24 #devotion

Further Honoring My Ballet Lineage

I came across a rare vintage pair of pointe shoes recently: Ben & Sally’s Noi-z-less pointe shoes. The shoes date from the mid 1920s and the company is, I believe, long defunct (This is a problem with many pointe shoe brands: even if they are popular, they get gobbled up by larger brands like Capezio, Bloch, Freed, etc. In the 20s, the only world-wide brand of pointe shoe was Capezio, thanks to Pavlova’s patronage of the company. It took time for pointe shoe brands to catch up to developing technique. That’s always a hand in hand journey. These shoes are a real treasure. They have a suede toe, which was common at least through the 1950s. It was thought to reduce noise and extend the life of the shoe. I believe one can still find suede toe shoes — Selva in the 50s was a very popular model. I don’t like the suede. I prefer to darn my shoes to my specifications but as I said, as American pointe shoe companies were starting up, one can find many interesting modifications to what we’d recognize as a pointe shoe today. I’m particularly amused to find that dancers in the 20s had the same problem as dancers in my generation, as dancers now with the heels of their shoes slipping off (hence the elastic).

I am thinking for both my castrati and my dancer of profiling individuals every month. I’ve written before about certain dancers but I might make this a regular thing. One of the dealers from whom I buy pointe shoes, by the way, has a pointe shoe double signed by Nureyev and Fonteyn. I only really collect women’s pointe shoes and I’ve never liked Fonteyn (heresy, I know, but I rather loathe her), so I’ve let it pass, but if anyone is interested or wants to pick up much less expensive ephemera, this is an awesome, really awesome place to look. 

This weekend I’m going to see the final performance of NYCB principal dancer Megan Fairchild. She’ll be performing the lead role in one of the great comedic ballets: “Coppelia.” Here is an interview with her. She is a fantastic technician and has a very strong stage presence. I remember seeing her in this same role when I and my husband were courting. It’s a bitter-sweet thing to now be seeing her retirement performance. She is an important link in the chain of lineage that binds this tradition — that of ballet– together, one generation to the next through bodies, through pain, through shared exhilaration of touching the transcendent. As an aside, Ms. Fairchild attended both universities at which I teach and received her MBA at NYU where I received my first MA. I just think this is very cool, but she sounds from her interviews a thousand times more organized than I ever was. lol. 

Here  ^ she is in “Theme and Variations,” an extremely difficult piece (technically). You can read the article accompanying the image here. She has danced for a quarter of a century with NYCB and now is passing the torch. She has three children (something unheard of in my day as a dancer, just like going to college. When I danced, we were told it was a career or school, not both; and children could wait until retirement. I still get absolutely appalled when a principal dancer takes time off to have a child– and I know is just the way I was trained, one of the unhealthy things of dancing in my generation. In my day, at the companies where I worked, it would have been read as not being serious about one’s art. I think it’s a good change though and apparently with development in kinesiology, dancers are coming back from pregnancies thin, with pelvic girdle strong, and with a strong core. I think that in the old days (lol) we didn’t know how to achieve the last two things so well. Now dancers talk about it and there’s much more care given to PT, kinesology, and recovery. I’m glad this has changed). According to one of the articles I’ve read about her retirement, she and her family plan to move to France to ensure that her kids grow up bi-lingual (her husband, I believe is French). She’ll work as a repetiteur, one who sets ballets, in this case the Balanchine ballets she has danced, and maintains the integrity of the choreography. “Coppelia” is a perfect ballet for her, a perfect reverence to her time in service to this art. For those wondering, yes, I have two pair of her pointe shoes, both pairs signed. I’d post a picture, but they’re wrapped up in acid free paper and packed away in archival boxes. 

Further Honoring My Ballet Lineage

I came across a rare vintage pair of pointe shoes recently: Ben & Sally’s Noi-z-less pointe shoes. The shoes date from the mid 1920s and the company is, I believe, long defunct (This is a problem with many pointe shoe brands: even if they are popular, they get gobbled up by larger brands like Capezio, Bloch, Freed, etc. In the 20s, the only world-wide brand of pointe shoe was Capezio, thanks to Pavlova’s patronage of the company. It took time for pointe shoe brands to catch up to developing technique. That’s always a hand in hand journey. These shoes are a real treasure. They have a suede toe, which was common at least through the 1950s. It was thought to reduce noise and extend the life of the shoe. I believe one can still find suede toe shoes — Selva in the 50s was a very popular model. I don’t like the suede. I prefer to darn my shoes to my specifications but as I said, as American pointe shoe companies were starting up, one can find many interesting modifications to what we’d recognize as a pointe shoe today. I’m particularly amused to find that dancers in the 20s had the same problem as dancers in my generation, as dancers now with the heels of their shoes slipping off (hence the elastic).

I am thinking for both my castrati and my dancer of profiling individuals every month. I’ve written before about certain dancers but I might make this a regular thing. One of the dealers from whom I buy pointe shoes, by the way, has a pointe shoe double signed by Nureyev and Fonteyn. I only really collect women’s pointe shoes and I’ve never liked Fonteyn (heresy, I know, but I rather loathe her), so I’ve let it pass, but if anyone is interested or wants to pick up much less expensive ephemera, this is an awesome, really awesome place to look. 

This weekend I’m going to see the final performance of NYCB principal dancer Megan Fairchild. She’ll be performing the lead role in one of the great comedic ballets: “Coppelia.” Here is an interview with her. She is a fantastic technician and has a very strong stage presence. I remember seeing her in this same role when I and my husband were courting. It’s a bitter-sweet thing to now be seeing her retirement performance. She is an important link in the chain of lineage that binds this tradition — that of ballet– together, one generation to the next through bodies, through pain, through shared exhilaration of touching the transcendent. As an aside, Ms. Fairchild attended both universities at which I teach and received her MBA at NYU where I received my first MA. I just think this is very cool, but she sounds from her interviews a thousand times more organized than I ever was. lol. 

Here  ^ she is in “Theme and Variations,” an extremely difficult piece (technically). You can read the article accompanying the image here. She has danced for a quarter of a century with NYCB and now is passing the torch. She has three children (something unheard of in my day as a dancer, just like going to college. When I danced, we were told it was a career or school, not both; and children could wait until retirement. I still get absolutely appalled when a principal dancer takes time off to have a child– and I know is just the way I was trained, one of the unhealthy things of dancing in my generation. In my day, at the companies where I worked, it would have been read as not being serious about one’s art. I think it’s a good change though and apparently with development in kinesiology, dancers are coming back from pregnancies thin, with pelvic girdle strong, and with a strong core. I think that in the old days (lol) we didn’t know how to achieve the last two things so well. Now dancers talk about it and there’s much more care given to PT, kinesology, and recovery. I’m glad this has changed). According to one of the articles I’ve read about her retirement, she and her family plan to move to France to ensure that her kids grow up bi-lingual (her husband, I believe is French). She’ll work as a repetiteur, one who sets ballets, in this case the Balanchine ballets she has danced, and maintains the integrity of the choreography. “Coppelia” is a perfect ballet for her, a perfect reverence to her time in service to this art. For those wondering, yes, I have two pair of her pointe shoes, both pairs signed. I’d post a picture, but they’re wrapped up in acid free paper and packed away in archival boxes. 

Further Honoring My Ballet Lineage

I came across a rare vintage pair of pointe shoes recently: Ben & Sally’s Noi-z-less pointe shoes. The shoes date from the mid 1920s and the company is, I believe, long defunct (This is a problem with many pointe shoe brands: even if they are popular, they get gobbled up by larger brands like Capezio, Bloch, Freed, etc. In the 20s, the only world-wide brand of pointe shoe was Capezio, thanks to Pavlova’s patronage of the company. It took time for pointe shoe brands to catch up to developing technique. That’s always a hand in hand journey. These shoes are a real treasure. They have a suede toe, which was common at least through the 1950s. It was thought to reduce noise and extend the life of the shoe. I believe one can still find suede toe shoes — Selva in the 50s was a very popular model. I don’t like the suede. I prefer to darn my shoes to my specifications but as I said, as American pointe shoe companies were starting up, one can find many interesting modifications to what we’d recognize as a pointe shoe today. I’m particularly amused to find that dancers in the 20s had the same problem as dancers in my generation, as dancers now with the heels of their shoes slipping off (hence the elastic).

I am thinking for both my castrati and my dancer of profiling individuals every month. I’ve written before about certain dancers but I might make this a regular thing. One of the dealers from whom I buy pointe shoes, by the way, has a pointe shoe double signed by Nureyev and Fonteyn. I only really collect women’s pointe shoes and I’ve never liked Fonteyn (heresy, I know, but I rather loathe her), so I’ve let it pass, but if anyone is interested or wants to pick up much less expensive ephemera, this is an awesome, really awesome place to look. 

This weekend I’m going to see the final performance of NYCB principal dancer Megan Fairchild. She’ll be performing the lead role in one of the great comedic ballets: “Coppelia.” Here is an interview with her. She is a fantastic technician and has a very strong stage presence. I remember seeing her in this same role when I and my husband were courting. It’s a bitter-sweet thing to now be seeing her retirement performance. She is an important link in the chain of lineage that binds this tradition — that of ballet– together, one generation to the next through bodies, through pain, through shared exhilaration of touching the transcendent. As an aside, Ms. Fairchild attended both universities at which I teach and received her MBA at NYU where I received my first MA. I just think this is very cool, but she sounds from her interviews a thousand times more organized than I ever was. lol. 

Here  ^ she is in “Theme and Variations,” an extremely difficult piece (technically). You can read the article accompanying the image here. She has danced for a quarter of a century with NYCB and now is passing the torch. She has three children (something unheard of in my day as a dancer, just like going to college. When I danced, we were told it was a career or school, not both; and children could wait until retirement. I still get absolutely appalled when a principal dancer takes time off to have a child– and I know is just the way I was trained, one of the unhealthy things of dancing in my generation. In my day, at the companies where I worked, it would have been read as not being serious about one’s art. I think it’s a good change though and apparently with development in kinesiology, dancers are coming back from pregnancies thin, with pelvic girdle strong, and with a strong core. I think that in the old days (lol) we didn’t know how to achieve the last two things so well. Now dancers talk about it and there’s much more care given to PT, kinesology, and recovery. I’m glad this has changed). According to one of the articles I’ve read about her retirement, she and her family plan to move to France to ensure that her kids grow up bi-lingual (her husband, I believe is French). She’ll work as a repetiteur, one who sets ballets, in this case the Balanchine ballets she has danced, and maintains the integrity of the choreography. “Coppelia” is a perfect ballet for her, a perfect reverence to her time in service to this art. For those wondering, yes, I have two pair of her pointe shoes, both pairs signed. I’d post a picture, but they’re wrapped up in acid free paper and packed away in archival boxes. 

Further Honoring My Ballet Lineage

I came across a rare vintage pair of pointe shoes recently: Ben & Sally’s Noi-z-less pointe shoes. The shoes date from the mid 1920s and the company is, I believe, long defunct (This is a problem with many pointe shoe brands: even if they are popular, they get gobbled up by larger brands like Capezio, Bloch, Freed, etc. In the 20s, the only world-wide brand of pointe shoe was Capezio, thanks to Pavlova’s patronage of the company. It took time for pointe shoe brands to catch up to developing technique. That’s always a hand in hand journey. These shoes are a real treasure. They have a suede toe, which was common at least through the 1950s. It was thought to reduce noise and extend the life of the shoe. I believe one can still find suede toe shoes — Selva in the 50s was a very popular model. I don’t like the suede. I prefer to darn my shoes to my specifications but as I said, as American pointe shoe companies were starting up, one can find many interesting modifications to what we’d recognize as a pointe shoe today. I’m particularly amused to find that dancers in the 20s had the same problem as dancers in my generation, as dancers now with the heels of their shoes slipping off (hence the elastic).

I am thinking for both my castrati and my dancer of profiling individuals every month. I’ve written before about certain dancers but I might make this a regular thing. One of the dealers from whom I buy pointe shoes, by the way, has a pointe shoe double signed by Nureyev and Fonteyn. I only really collect women’s pointe shoes and I’ve never liked Fonteyn (heresy, I know, but I rather loathe her), so I’ve let it pass, but if anyone is interested or wants to pick up much less expensive ephemera, this is an awesome, really awesome place to look. 

This weekend I’m going to see the final performance of NYCB principal dancer Megan Fairchild. She’ll be performing the lead role in one of the great comedic ballets: “Coppelia.” Here is an interview with her. She is a fantastic technician and has a very strong stage presence. I remember seeing her in this same role when I and my husband were courting. It’s a bitter-sweet thing to now be seeing her retirement performance. She is an important link in the chain of lineage that binds this tradition — that of ballet– together, one generation to the next through bodies, through pain, through shared exhilaration of touching the transcendent. As an aside, Ms. Fairchild attended both universities at which I teach and received her MBA at NYU where I received my first MA. I just think this is very cool, but she sounds from her interviews a thousand times more organized than I ever was. lol. 

Here  ^ she is in “Theme and Variations,” an extremely difficult piece (technically). You can read the article accompanying the image here. She has danced for a quarter of a century with NYCB and now is passing the torch. She has three children (something unheard of in my day as a dancer, just like going to college. When I danced, we were told it was a career or school, not both; and children could wait until retirement. I still get absolutely appalled when a principal dancer takes time off to have a child– and I know is just the way I was trained, one of the unhealthy things of dancing in my generation. In my day, at the companies where I worked, it would have been read as not being serious about one’s art. I think it’s a good change though and apparently with development in kinesiology, dancers are coming back from pregnancies thin, with pelvic girdle strong, and with a strong core. I think that in the old days (lol) we didn’t know how to achieve the last two things so well. Now dancers talk about it and there’s much more care given to PT, kinesology, and recovery. I’m glad this has changed). According to one of the articles I’ve read about her retirement, she and her family plan to move to France to ensure that her kids grow up bi-lingual (her husband, I believe is French). She’ll work as a repetiteur, one who sets ballets, in this case the Balanchine ballets she has danced, and maintains the integrity of the choreography. “Coppelia” is a perfect ballet for her, a perfect reverence to her time in service to this art. For those wondering, yes, I have two pair of her pointe shoes, both pairs signed. I’d post a picture, but they’re wrapped up in acid free paper and packed away in archival boxes. 

Further Honoring My Ballet Lineage

I came across a rare vintage pair of pointe shoes recently: Ben & Sally’s Noi-z-less pointe shoes. The shoes date from the mid 1920s and the company is, I believe, long defunct (This is a problem with many pointe shoe brands: even if they are popular, they get gobbled up by larger brands like Capezio, Bloch, Freed, etc. In the 20s, the only world-wide brand of pointe shoe was Capezio, thanks to Pavlova’s patronage of the company. It took time for pointe shoe brands to catch up to developing technique. That’s always a hand in hand journey. These shoes are a real treasure. They have a suede toe, which was common at least through the 1950s. It was thought to reduce noise and extend the life of the shoe. I believe one can still find suede toe shoes — Selva in the 50s was a very popular model. I don’t like the suede. I prefer to darn my shoes to my specifications but as I said, as American pointe shoe companies were starting up, one can find many interesting modifications to what we’d recognize as a pointe shoe today. I’m particularly amused to find that dancers in the 20s had the same problem as dancers in my generation, as dancers now with the heels of their shoes slipping off (hence the elastic).

I am thinking for both my castrati and my dancer of profiling individuals every month. I’ve written before about certain dancers but I might make this a regular thing. One of the dealers from whom I buy pointe shoes, by the way, has a pointe shoe double signed by Nureyev and Fonteyn. I only really collect women’s pointe shoes and I’ve never liked Fonteyn (heresy, I know, but I rather loathe her), so I’ve let it pass, but if anyone is interested or wants to pick up much less expensive ephemera, this is an awesome, really awesome place to look. 

This weekend I’m going to see the final performance of NYCB principal dancer Megan Fairchild. She’ll be performing the lead role in one of the great comedic ballets: “Coppelia.” Here is an interview with her. She is a fantastic technician and has a very strong stage presence. I remember seeing her in this same role when I and my husband were courting. It’s a bitter-sweet thing to now be seeing her retirement performance. She is an important link in the chain of lineage that binds this tradition — that of ballet– together, one generation to the next through bodies, through pain, through shared exhilaration of touching the transcendent. As an aside, Ms. Fairchild attended both universities at which I teach and received her MBA at NYU where I received my first MA. I just think this is very cool, but she sounds from her interviews a thousand times more organized than I ever was. lol. 

Here  ^ she is in “Theme and Variations,” an extremely difficult piece (technically). You can read the article accompanying the image here. She has danced for a quarter of a century with NYCB and now is passing the torch. She has three children (something unheard of in my day as a dancer, just like going to college. When I danced, we were told it was a career or school, not both; and children could wait until retirement. I still get absolutely appalled when a principal dancer takes time off to have a child– and I know is just the way I was trained, one of the unhealthy things of dancing in my generation. In my day, at the companies where I worked, it would have been read as not being serious about one’s art. I think it’s a good change though and apparently with development in kinesiology, dancers are coming back from pregnancies thin, with pelvic girdle strong, and with a strong core. I think that in the old days (lol) we didn’t know how to achieve the last two things so well. Now dancers talk about it and there’s much more care given to PT, kinesology, and recovery. I’m glad this has changed). According to one of the articles I’ve read about her retirement, she and her family plan to move to France to ensure that her kids grow up bi-lingual (her husband, I believe is French). She’ll work as a repetiteur, one who sets ballets, in this case the Balanchine ballets she has danced, and maintains the integrity of the choreography. “Coppelia” is a perfect ballet for her, a perfect reverence to her time in service to this art. For those wondering, yes, I have two pair of her pointe shoes, both pairs signed. I’d post a picture, but they’re wrapped up in acid free paper and packed away in archival boxes. 

#Chess is an amazing game. I attribute my #devotion to chess prior to entering #CompTech as one of my primary reasons for success. To win at chess against better and better players requires great attention. And a #willingness to tell the #truth. Good and bad. All of the moves can be seen, right?

The Verse of the Day for Friday May 22nd 2026 @ https://theverseoftheday.info/en/daily-devotion/2026/05/22 #devotion

The Verse of the Day for Friday May 22nd 2026 @ https://theverseoftheday.info/en/daily-devotion/2026/05/22 #devotion

His thing in my thing on a boat??? 🤭 Not on a boat??!! 🌝 #sleipnir #seth #loveeternal #devotion #churchofsatan

His thing in my thing on a boat??? 🤭 Not on a boat??!! 🌝 #sleipnir #seth #loveeternal #devotion #churchofsatan

I made my thing grow shut for the one trve love 🤭 I became the virgin Mary for a God who walks the Earth. #seth #sleipnir #loveeternal #devotion #churchofsatan

I made my thing grow shut for the one trve love 🤭 I became the virgin Mary for a God who walks the Earth. #seth #sleipnir #loveeternal #devotion #churchofsatan

His thing in my thing 🤭 shtap! I hate it when the government is inbetween trve love. #sleipnir #loveeternal #seth #devotion #churchofsatan

His thing in my thing 🤭 shtap! I hate it when the government is inbetween trve love. #sleipnir #loveeternal #seth #devotion #churchofsatan

*Sunday’s Devotion

But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
When it cannot rest,
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. (Isaiah 57:20 NKJV)

ISAIAH 57 IN ITS ENTIRETY.

Thought for the Week: Like Peter, can you imagine standing before an ocean in the middle of a violent storm. The waves are relentless, crashing over one another, bringing up dark mud, debris, and dirt from the sea floor. There is no calm, no silence, and no peace.

In the text, God uses this vivid picture as a metaphor of a life lived apart from Him. The “wicked” aren’t just murderers or criminals. No, this is a description of anyone who chooses to live in rebellion against God or ignores His righteousness. Without God, the heart can be like that troubled sea—constantly agitated, churning up anxiety, guilt, and chaos. We try to fill our restlessness with noise, busyness, or sin, but all it does is “cast up mire and dirt,” making our internal world more uncomfortable and messy.

Let me ask you this…What “mire and dirt” (anger, guilt, anxiety) is your heart currently churning? And how can you actively surrender your need for control to God in order to find true rest?

If you feel restless today—exhausted by striving or churning up internal chaos—the invitation is to stop trying to calm the sea yourself and turn to the One who commands it to “Peace, be still.”

Prayer: Lord, I confess that sometimes my heart is like the troubled sea, filled with anxiety and restlessness. I try to find rest on my own, but I only find more mess. Today, I turn away from my own way. Please bring Your peace into my heart, heal my wandering spirit, and let me rest in Your grace. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Pick one. Routine or impulse? Which do you prefer? Tell me now. Be present. Follow with structure. #Devotion #MindGames
Mon to Fri 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST

A special blessing

https://thehouseofvines.com/2019/12/15/the-essence-of-our-religion-is-beauty/?page_id=44017

I agree with this to a degree…beauty, devotion, sacrifice.

I have a fellowship at my university, the Jewish studies fellowship, and one of the things I learned this year is that it’s considered a special blessing to do your required action, use / wear your required items but *make them beautiful.* I forget what this is called in Hebrew, but to make religious things beautiful instead of just functional adds to the blessing.

Yesterday, I was listening to a lecture on St. Francis (he’s very, very popular amongst my students, even non-Catholic ones!) and while Francis reverenced his “lady Poverty,” he said that, to quote the lecture, “Poverty stops at the altar.” Religious items should be as lush and beautiful as we can make them.

As a Heathen, I also hold this to be particularly sacred. Even if one doesn’t have a lot of money or any disposable income, beauty can take many forms. This doesn’t mean spending a lot of money. It means taking care with one’s shrine, with prayer, with religious garb, with anything we do for our Gods. It’s a Platonic ideal that beauty elevates the soul to the Gods and I believe that 100%. When I see ugliness being elevated as popular or “good” in media, in our culture, I know that there evil moves in many forms. I know to be vigilant; and I know to turn to tradition and the beautiful all the more.

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You hesitate because you know I will take control. https://iwantclips.com/custom_clip_orders/order/1255635 #CustomClip #Devotion

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Trust the darkness to hold the load the light cannot see.

—Animo ✨
https://www.animoreflectiveintelligence.com

#faith #devotion #trustgod #resilience #rainermariarilke #poetry

Lean in for this. Obey or negotiate? Pick one. Tell me now. Remain attentive. Prove with restraint. #Devotion #Ownership

I am curious. Follow my pace or test it? Choose wisely. Tell me now. Do not wander. Submit with standards. #FridayFeeling #Devotion
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Choose carefully. Do you want firm direction with a soft edge? Yes or no. Take a second, then reply. Submit with focus. #Devotion #ThursdayThoughts
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Understanding Tantra
#Tantra
#connection
#devotion
#bhakti
#innerpeace
#self-discovery
#meditation

Understanding Tantra
#Tantra
#connection
#devotion
#bhakti
#innerpeace
#self-discovery
#meditation

Understanding Tantra
#Tantra
#connection
#devotion
#bhakti
#innerpeace
#self-discovery
#meditation

Understanding Tantra
#Tantra
#connection
#devotion
#bhakti
#innerpeace
#self-discovery
#meditation

Understanding Tantra
#Tantra
#connection
#devotion
#bhakti
#innerpeace
#self-discovery
#meditation

A quotation from Shakespeare

FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
   And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
   Which, as they kiss, consume.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal

A quotation from Shakespeare

FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
   And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
   Which, as they kiss, consume.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal

A quotation from Shakespeare

FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
   And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
   Which, as they kiss, consume.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal

A quotation from Shakespeare

FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
   And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
   Which, as they kiss, consume.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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*Sunday’s Devotion

“For thus says the Lord: ‘To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant'” — Isaiah 56:4 (NKJV)

ISAIAH 56 IN ITS ENTIRETY.

Thought For The Week: Back in the old days, if you couldn’t have kids—if you were a eunuch—everyone pretty much ignored you. You were left out, made to feel less than, sometimes even invisible. But this passage flips that script. God reaches out to anyone feeling dried up, overlooked, or like they don’t matter, and He makes a promise you can actually hang onto.

Look at what the verse says: choose what makes God happy. It’s not some quick, once-and-done decision. You’ve got to do it deliberately, again and again—choosing God’s ways over whatever everyone else expects of you. Maybe right now you feel boxed in or stuck, like you’re a “dry tree.” Maybe life hasn’t gone your way, or people have shut you out. But God isn’t counting your achievements or demanding perfection. He’s searching for a heart that keeps coming back, stays true, and actually wants Him above everything.

So just keep it simple today: relax in His grace, follow His rhythms, and hold tight to your connection with Him. The next part of this scripture promises an everlasting name, one that can’t be erased. Your worth isn’t about your resume or reputation; it’s about who you belong to.

Prayer: Lord, thank You for always noticing me. Help me focus on what makes You smile today instead of chasing my own stuff. I’m clinging to Your promises, trusting that You’ve given me a name and a place that really lasts. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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