dual personalities

October 31, 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg.

Did you know that Luther’s theses are engraved into the door of All Saints’ Church, Wittenberg? The Latin inscription above informs the reader that the original door was destroyed by a fire, and that in 1857, King Frederick William IV of Prussia ordered a replacement be made.

Today is also the anniversary of our pater’s death in 1992. One of his former students gave me a picture of him and I have it in my office. He watches over me with a slightly annoyed look on his face.

I forgave him for his many imperfections a long time ago and I don’t mind him hanging around in my office.

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

So join me in a toast tonight to Martin Luther and to ANC III.

And if you’re going to a Great Pumpkin party, make good choices!

*Martin Luther