night music

hands play together
laughing and dancing fireflies
of evening’s chorale

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever.
~Robert Farrer Capon

And the Spirit of Jonathan Swift Award Goes To . . .

the National Republican Senatorial Committee.