![]() ![]() “They that are wise and have received the truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for their guide, and have not been deceived-verily I say unto you, they shall not be hewn down and cast into the fire, but shall abide the day. The Second Coming will be a fearful, mournful time for the wicked, but it will be a day of peace for the righteous. His Second Coming will mark the beginning of the Millennium. ![]() ![]() When the Savior comes again, He will come in power and glory to claim the earth as His kingdom. Since that time, believers have looked forward to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. As Jesus Christ ascended into heaven at the completion of His mortal ministry, two angels declared to His Apostles, “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” ( Acts 1:11). ![]()
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![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry-among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance-that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some days bring seemingly insurmountable odds and other days the way ahead appears to be clear. The brief essay includes ideas I have considered and lived in the thirty years since it was written. Like Jonathon, I sometimes chose a lonely path, out of step with my contemporaries. At 55 years old I recognize the limitations of the society we live in and appreciate the freedoms I continue to enjoy. Jonathon’s influence on young people may be at an end.Īs I look back the novel continues to influence my approach to life. ![]() In my years as a librarian I rarely come across, Jonathon Livingston Seagull, and perhaps the story is dated. Written by Richard Bach, the story set a standard for me, one that I now recognize parallels other, older human stories. The essay was about the novel Jonathon Livingston Seagull and Jonathon’s life. The interpretation presents a familiar black and white world that humans leave as they gain experience and begin to recognize the shades between. As I read back through the essay I recognize a naïve, perhaps innocent, regard for the future. The essay was written in application for a two week intense experience at a university. The other day while cleaning out an old desk, I found an essay I had written as a senior in High School, over thirty years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, his fans seemed to love getting an inside look at his life-and his shenanigans, because more kept tuning in, with nearly 340,000 people watching his every move. "She's so angry." From there, he showed fans the inspirational messages he wrote to himself on the bathroom mirror, like "Turn the other cheek," and the vitamin C and whey protein he had on the counter.Īnd just when things couldn't get any more random. ![]() "I'm so self conscious about my gum chewing skills now," he said with a laugh. ![]() WATCH: Justin Bieber Pulls a Beyoncé and Releases Epic Video for His New Album RELATED: Justin Bieber's New Justmoji Swag Has Arrived He also stopped smacking his gum after people kept complaining about it. That was short-lived, though, when he started showing fans around his place instead of finishing up the song. Finally, he started singing again, and fans went crazy as he crooned a bit of "Despacito". ![]() |