Present Joys

“We thank the Lord of heaven and earth
who hath preserved us from our birth
for present joys, for blessings past,
and for the hope of heaven at last.”

Tag I will always be in love with flannery o'connor

2 posts between February 2012 and March 2014

jason-sims:

Happy 89th birthday, Flannery.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Tolle, lege: her biblography.

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jason-sims
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
Flannery O’Connor, Some aspects of the grotesque in Southern fiction