Meanwhile, in Rivendell . . .

Almighty Creator is greater than you, little heart, and He loves you with a far more intense passion than any you will ever be able to know, however hard you try to manufacture it.   He knows how to sanctify--He's been doing it a long time...   What have I ever done for You--truly?  When have I ever given out of a sincere desire to give to You, or blessed out of a sincere desire to bless You?  When have I sincerely sat at Your feet to drink You in, to hear what You are thinking and feeling?  When have I ever surrendered without holding back the hope--more, the expectation--that You won't really require the sacrifice, that a ram will be provided in place of my Isaac, too? "Be rich in good deeds…"  In Real Terms, I won't even begin to scratch the smallest crumb from the outermost crust of ever approaching  "deserving" or "repaying" my eternal debt.  But in human terms, I can do my best, my absolute and utter best, to try .   It will be le...

Sorry I've been rather scarce of late, peeps.  This past week, I worked five breakfast shifts at my part-time job, as well as several double shifts, and getting up at 5:30 a.m. five out of seven days will kind of take it out of a person.  (Unless you're a person who is just better at getting up early than I am, which is very likely.) This has pretty much been me coming home in the afternoon/evening. But anyway, first things first.  I have decided, after due deliberation, to extend  my recent giveaway  through July 25th , just to let any "stragglers" have a fair chance ;)  Because--and this may shock you; hold onto something--I myself know what it's like when life gets crazy and you can't spend as much time on the blogosphere and then find out you missed a giveaway.  Believe it or not, I have done it :P  If you "just missed" the deadline, fret not thyself!  You've still got plenty of time to enter for one of those lovely pictures or th...

"One day, I'll be famous…" I am now going to attempt to review the one and only My Fair Lady --about time, no? ;)  And yes, you read the title correctly, I am hosting a giveaway as a part of this post!  But I want to write the review first, so you will simply have to live with the old pins and needles until I've finished, mwhahahaha.  (Or you could cheat and just skip to the end of the post.  That's an option, too.) I'm assuming everybody already knows the plot, because I'm assuming (and hoping) most of you have already seen it, but on the off chance that that is not the case, here's this that I stole  obtained from the Internet:   In this beloved musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hep...