“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit   Life comes to us shrouded in death. I don’t mean death, like people dying.  What I mean is that moment by moment, hour by hour, and day by day, uncertainty looms, darkness threatens, and the reality that everything is in decay sets in. Despite what my opening statement says, this  does not mean that I am only anticipating gloom and doom here on earth.    But you don’t have to go much further than the weakness of your own heart toRead More →