Bridge to Terabithia and God

"Do you believe people go to hell, really go to hell, I mean?"
"You ain't worrying about Leslie Burke?"
It did seem peculiar, but still - "Well, May Belle said...."
"May Belle? May Belle ain't God."
"Yeah, but how do you know what God does?"
"Lord, boy, don't be a fool. God ain't gonna send any little girls to hell."

I recently reread Bridge to Terabithia and watched the film adaptation, since I'm using the book to tutor a fifth grade boy in English. I don't recall this part at all.
This book disturbs me - the entire plot, but especially this part. It also kinda disturbs me that it never occurred to me to pray about which books I assign to the kids I tutor. I wonder whether I am doing a good job of presenting these kinds of topics to kids that pray everyday for sick relatives and see their grandpa do his quiet time in the study every morning.

Anyways, I found a little essay for tomorrow's lesson about the book's history of censorship. Hopefully discussing it will be fruitful for us in more ways than just increasing his Lexile / TAKS scores.

today's Utmost

"When you find yourself face to face with a person who is spiritually lost, remind yourself of Jesus Christ on the cross. If that person can get to God in any other way, then the Cross of Christ is unnecessary. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ."

"For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."
1 Corinthians 2:2


Let's not confuse mercy with sympathy. The gift of mercy too points to the cross as the only truth and the only hope.

new cloud on the block

Stumbled upon this while looking up a designer from Bruce Mau (SO COOOOL WAHHHH). Expect to see this in one of my renderings next semester.
"Cumulus, nimbus, stratus, cirrus…asperatus? First “discovered” in 2009, scientists have finally named this dramatic and rare cloud occurence as Undulatus Asperatus."

Oporto on my mind

maybe, someday, if He so wills

Going home is another battle of its own.

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.

Help me to know what the second half, as well as the first, means in the context of these remaining three weeks in Dallas.