Basil, a servant and soldier of Christ, when overflowing with the grace of the Holy Spirit, is endowed with a sincere love for humanity and all of God's beautiful creation; for only Love makes contact with his senses. Beauty reaches his eyes in the presence of ugliness, music his ears during terrible silence, incense his nose at the smell of decay, and beings of light dance about his body when he suffers. Truly he is, just as you are, a creature of God's careful hand and Word.
It is a shame that we have been afflicted with such pain in the world. It would be a perfect life if we did not abandon God, and stayed with Him at all times, because He has not left us for even the smallest moment, and we leave Him for even the smallest moments of sin! God is here among us all. All but one candle shall burn out at the eve of the Second Coming of Christ; it is the one that has been burning strong for all eternity and will continue to do so. God is a light that never goes out!
Now, the basils will speak for themselves...
Hello everyone! It has been a while since my website has been online. I haven't been feeling well so I've been writing again. It seems that my best works come from a place of deep existential sorrow.
To live at all is to make a leap of faith. — S.T.
If you speak the truth [in love], then what happens is good, regardless of what happens. — J.P.
We are so strangely made; the memories that could make us happy pass away; it is the memories that break our hearts that abide. — Mark Twain
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