My new year’s resolution usually look like this: learning a new language, travel to a new place. But this year, the new year resolution – Psalm 131.
Calvin: wow, it really snowed last night! Isn’t it wonderful? Hobbes: Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! Calvin: A new Year … A fresh, clean start! Hobbes: It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! Calvin: A day full of possibilities! Calvin: It’s a …
JK Rowling’s idea about “platform 9 3/4” might have borrowed from Eva Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13. A book that I really enjoying reading it, first in German, then one more time in English. What do I like about the book? I will try my best to tell you without being a spoiler. 1. The unconventional …
Bookworm wrote a winter reading list not long ago, but the winter just started, she already finished reading more than half of the list. It is necessary and very urgent to draw an expansion to the reading list. Therefore, another 8 books had added in. And what are you reading? Winter Reading List (Original) …
I stand before Thy manger fair,My Jesus, Life from heaven!I come, and unto Thee I bearWhat Thou to me hast given.Receive it, for ’tis mind and soul,Heart, spirit, strength—receive it all,And deign to let it please Thee. Original Text (German) Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier,o Jesulein, mein Leben,ich stehe, bring und schenke dir,was …
Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes. Es gibt erfülltes Leben trotz vieler unerfüllter Wünsche. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… … a fulfilled life is not the life that stuffed with material, but the life that is filled with love. … … erfülltes Leben ist nicht das mit Materiellen vollgestopfte, sondern das mit Liebe erfüllte Leben. In seine Lieb versenken Werner Grimm
Daß du mich liebst, das wußt’ ich,Ich hatt’ es längst entdeckt;Doch als du mir’s gestandenHat es mich tief erschreckt. Ich stieg wohl auf die BergeUnd jubelte und sang;Ich ging an’s Meer und weinteBey’m Sonnenuntergang. Mein Herz ist wie die SonneSo flammend anzusehn,Und in ein Meer von LiebeVersinkt es groß und schön. Heinrich Heine English Translation …
Stay uprightthe rose advises,show thorns,be proud,bow down only to love. Kurt Marti Original Text (German) Bleib aufrecht, rät die Rose, zeig Dornen, sei stolz, beuge dich nur der Liebe. Kurt Marti
But then something strange happened. Just as we thought we would die, the waves calmed down and became still. They became completely still. They carried our boat gently past all the dangerous reefs and pushed it gently toward the black rugged rocks below Sir Kato’s castle. Mio, my son by Astrid Lindgren. English Translation by …