Might I get to enjoy a similar blessing?

Happy 19th anniversary, Mom and Dad. You guys have been immeasurably liberal with me.

And remember, you're never too old to stop doing it. Although a little baby brother next year would come across as quite a rude shock I think. Besides, what would you name him? 天福?

God be faithful to keep you faithful, I pray. Enjoy your cake!

TOK Q8 is strangling me this very instant

Order is Heaven's first law;

And this confessed, some are, and must be,

Greater than the rest, more rich, more wise;

But who infers from hence that such are happier,

Shocks all common sense.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;

Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

~Alexander Pope

"The Baby In My Womb Leapt For Joy" by John Piper

What!? Only two more weeks to final deadlines!!??

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down a ditch

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is such a -

Blessing.

团结合一，迎向光明

The Truth that shines for all to see
Invites your heart to make abode
Within Its herded sanctuary
Resplendent with the sinner’s hope.

~tc

Don't be shy to nod in agreement

An incomplete list of familiar sensations that we don’t so often pause to appreciate. It was fun trying to put deliberate thought into such subtleties. Here are a few.

1. The chilling twitches and shivers down your spine when your body tries to cope with the sudden loss of heat following the discharge of a golden fountain into a porcelain bowl.

2. The way your eyes melt and your nose implodes with swarming tension because you need just that one more dust particle to sneeze.

3. The volcanic eruption of concentrated lemon fluid that occurs when a certain small red dome is squeezed.

4. The way slime, snot and bacteria would caress the back of your throat every time you inhale a little too hard and swallow without much thought.

5. The way panic compels your body to manoeuvre around the house ten times faster than normal when you wake up five minutes before you need to leave the house.

6. The way certain death sends you back to sleep for a little while more before causing your body to manoeuvre around the house ten times faster than normal when you wake up forty-five minutes after you need to leave the house.

7. The default lethargy on days when there’s PE.

8. Peace after war in your abdomen after you find out it was actually just a really long and smelly fart that you needed, not without sweat though.

9. The denial of it, which may be the most convincing act people will ever see you perform.

10. The psychotic joy derived from learning that your teacher is on MC that causes you to dance around and flail your arms like a monkey who has just discovered that the former ninth planet of the solar system is not called Pluto but Banana.

The Great Deep

Before the stars were put in place
A Ghost pressed lightly on my face
I forked and fused where coasts imposed
With fins and scales in blue abode
Unbolted wrath, cry heav’nly gates
I swallowed Yahweh’s godless race
Save eight whose faith was true and pure
That which at Yam Suph hope ensured
But quick to stray, this errant lot
Whose prophet saw my creature’s jaw
T’was then I frothed my fury’s worth
E’en now my shape consumes the earth
But when He came, I knew t’was true
He raised his hand, my rage subdued
My death the final victory hails
But first from me will darkness rise
The beast who comes in thirteen one
To charm the daughters and the sons
But He who wipes the tears from Man
Will cast the Fiend into the depths
‘Tis then I shall be truly gone
And Heav’n and Earth shall be reborn.

~tc