Here's a game I snagged from Kate and Mr. Proboque.

Rules:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to it).
3. Find the 5th sentence (or closest to it).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Well, here's a link to that post. The sentence is: "Now, thanks to the passage of many years and the counsel of wise friends, I've grown to see it much differently."

I liked revisiting this post. It's a snapshot of a period in which God was doing a bit of an interior overhaul and, in the words of a good friend, preparing me for "the surprises of the Holy Spirit."

Hell is full of good wishes or desires. St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Do not be troubled by Bernard's saying that "Hell is full of good wishes or desires." St. Francis de Sales

Now this is diversity, people. Nothing is so colorful as the kingdom of God.
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A more contemporary quotation with truth that I have learned the hard way:

Sin makes you stupid. Mark Shea

And a bonus from my favorite wit in the whole world:
From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us! St. Teresa of Avila

Hat tip: Enbrethiliel

New Orleans was an outstanding illustration of the Nancy Kerrigan Principle, which states "Just because you are a victim doesn't mean you can't be a jerk too."

Mark Shea, now back to the enjoyment of us all, on the perpetrators of 'unrest' in the disaster zone.

Waiter, bring me some soup that I will think is good! And step on it!
"Actually, most people's marital satisfaction declines over time, even though they think it is improving," says Professor Benjamin Karney, marriage researcher at the University of Florida. Uh-huh. And the problem is what, exactly?

After too many days of sunshine, something just snaps.
The underground garden of an underground chapel, somewhere underneath Fresno, CA. I suspect the motivation had something to do with the 30 degree difference between the underground temperature and the average life of a Fresnoian.

Parenting techniques of the future.
Kids you can be proud of, guaranteed. This is several years old. I'm sure it sounded more radical then than it does now, disturbingly enough.

Two game wardens, seven hunters and a cow.
Tom Lehrer song lyrics. Astound your children with the realization that they did not invent edgy humor.

Do you love being alive? Make your grandchildren quit college.
Relatives literally worry themselves to death over final exams, says Dr. Michael Adams in the Annals of Improbable Research. If you are an academic pratitioner yourself, the journal supplies a solution to your publish-or-perish woes here.

This started out to be a straightforward, serious post. Honest. Oh well.

Hat tip: Sis-in-law Rosemary