Eternity

1/11/19

I am not a songwriter but I did attempt to write a song once, while I attended Azusa Pacific University as a transfer student back in 2001. The lyrics speak of a fellow transfer student who I became close friends with during the last few months of her life before a fatal car accident. (I actually sang and played this song on my guitar in APU at Upper Turner Campus Center for her memorial service.)

I caught you just yesterday

Praying and smiling at heaven.

I saw you just yesterday

Laughing and talking with your friends. . . .

And the way you lived your life – inspires me.

Oh, why did it have to be?

Now even God can see

How sweet and silly you can be.

And the way you lived your life – inspires me.

Oh, why did it have to be?

Now even God can see

How fesity and bossy you can be.

And the way you lived your life – inspires me.

Oh, why did it have to be?

Now even I can see

You’ll be loved for eternity.

You’ll be loved . . . for eternity.

Grandma’s Gift and Her Gambling Grandson

Chester Delagneau

7/31/26

Category: Short Stories, Suffering, Theology

“No more bets,” says the croupier before spinning the 21 mm ivory ball around the roulette wheel. The man with the $50,000 bet on black watches on greedily as his bleached-white teeth pounce on his nubby fingernails. The ball yawns and eventually kneels into a pocket. The roulette dealer calls it: “14, Red, Even.” Friday…

The Odyssey: Trickery and Hospitality

Chester Delagneau

7/18/26

Category: Cinema, Literature, Morality, Poetry, Psychology, Suffering

Two opposing themes stood out to me about Christopher Nolan’s cinematic portrayal of The Odyssey (and The Aeneid): trickery and hospitality. “Zeus’s Law” or the social contract of hospitality when broken was a severe offense against the gods. In the movie, we see both hosts and strangers violating this sacred Greek code—what’s supposed to be…

Faith, Hope and Love

Chester Delagneau

4/13/26

Category: Psychology, Suffering

A poem about my experience as an immigrant boy in America. Faith, Hope, and Love “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.” Even in the shadows, Faith, which is the shimmer of things that’ve long lost their luster, still slices like lightning. “So let’s go all in.” …

Eternity

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