28 August: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Today is the feast day of St. Augustine of Hippo, Father of the Church and prolific writer. Here are some words of wisdom from his writings.

1. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
2. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
3. God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
4. Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
5. There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
6. In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
7. God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
8. Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
9. The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
10. Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

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Over the Rainbow

'We're not in Trinity anymore,' says Leonard Marx, quoting a line from an old Innovian  movie. The moon is different; the planes flying overhead are different. Nobody has any idea where they are or if it's possible to get home. 

In this strange new world, people from the highly technical Innovia and the less advanced Classica must co-operate in order to survive. In addition, travel through the inter-dimensional wormhole has given some people unusual and unexpected powers.

Innovia mourns the loss of its superhero, Power Blaster, last seen carrying a nuclear bomb to the upper atmosphere away from the inhabited Bird Island. They don't believe he could possibly have survived.  Power Blaster has survived, but is close to death and stranded in the new dimension. He is nursed back to health by a Classican woman, Elena. She has no idea who he is, only that she is falling in love with the handsome stranger.  

Shanna sets out to discover what happened to Nathan Tate, who didn't return from his hiking holiday, not knowing her life is about to be turned inside out and upside down. 

Meanwhile, Desi Troyes, the man responsible for the catastrophe, is at large on the new world, plotting how he can transfer his plans for world domination to the planet he now finds himself on - Earth. 

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