BitterSweetLife

It's a beautiful day. I've read it on the internet weather reports.

I never thought it would come to this. Here I am on my “Fall break,” writing the end-of-semester paper for my History of Christianity class. Ridiculous.

Believe me, I’d much rather be honing my hoops game or writing a new short story. Or a blog post. Instead, I’m diligently preserving my chances of bagging a straight A stat line this semester.

There are, of course, extenuating circumstances: all four of my classes feature a big term-ending research paper. My only chance of survival, as I see it, is to strike now, and incapacitate a couple of these monsters before they team up and choke me. The high level of aggression required by my latest "creative writing" stunt (3-in-1-day-midterms) left me slightly shaken, so it’s a good thing I can take on these latest assailants one at a time, and on my own terms.

However, I have come across some provocative quotes.

Check out Tertullian, pointing up the nature of True Reality:

God is everywhere, and the goodness of God is everywhere; demons are everywhere, and the cursing of them is everywhere; the invocation of divine judgment is everywhere, death is everywhere, and the sense of death is everywhere, and all the world over is found the witness of the soul.