When I graduated from high school (and then turned 18 the next day), I got lots of cool stuff. A party, tons of people at my house, cool presents. My favorite material thing (well partly...you'll see what I mean) was from my friend, Maggie.
She decorated a piece of construction paper with those styrofoam stickers and a quote from JRR Tolkien. It's been hanging on my bedroom wall, right under the crucifix, for 4 years now:
"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.
There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires,"
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Love it. Thank you Lord for Tolkien and for Maggie!
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