Easter III

To carnal men, the one rule of understanding is his ordinary experience; seeing is believing. What men are accustomed to see, that they credit; what they are not accustomed to see, that they deem incredible. But God often worketh wonders, (that is, things contrary to what we are accustomed,) because he is God. Every day many men are born that previously had no existence at all; and this is a greater miracle than that a few, who did exist, have been raised from the dead. Yet this wonder is not recognized as such; on the contrary, it is disregarded because man is accustomed to it. Christ rose again from the dead; that is a fact. He had a body: he took flesh, he hung upon the cross, he gave up the ghost; his flesh was laid in the tomb. After that, he shewed his flesh as alive again, he lived again in the flesh. Why wonder, why deny it? God wrought this.

-- St. Augustine, Sermon 147 de Tempore

The Programmer's Night Song

(After Goethe)

The fluorescent tubes
Are dim.
In all the cubes
You cannot glimpse
One screen aglow.
Even the Spanish cleaning lady's dined.
One last trash can lined,
She too will go.

-- Anon.