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"The power that created the universe and spun the dragonfly's wing and is beyond all other powers holds back, in love, from overpowering us...the passionate restraint and hush of God."
Frederick Buechner
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 By Torsten Schleese - Own photo taken in Lutherhaus Wittenberg, Public Domain, "None of you can pray a psalm if you have not
previously made the words of the psalm your own." Martin Luther  "... it seemed a face of a human being to whom everything had happened that can happen. It was a face of great stillness, a face that had survived. "
Frederick Buechner of Leonardo's Jesus in The Faces of Jesus: A Life Story "Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life." Simone Weil
"I salt my breakfast eggs. All day long I feel created. I can see the blown dust on the skin on the back of my hand, the tiny trapezoids of chipped clay, moistened and breathed alive."
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm "The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. " -Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country
"If the Lord is indeed our shepherd, then everything goes topsy-turvy. Losing becomes finding and crying becomes laughing. The last become first and the weak become strong. Instead of life being done in by death in the end as we always supposed, death is done in finally by life in the end. If the Lord is our host at the great feast, then the sky is the limit."
Frederick Buechner "Christ did not come to make us Christians... he came to redeem us that we might be human in the full sense of that word." Hans Rookmaaker
Very Bread, Good Shepherd Tend Us
Healey Willan Very Bread, Good Shepherd, tend us, Jesu of thy love befriend us; thou refresh us, thou defend us, thou eternal goodness send us in the land of life to see. Thou who all things canst and knowest, who on earth such food bestowest, grant us with thy saints, though lowest, where the heavenly feast thou showest, fellow heirs and guests to be. |
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"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
--Charlotte Mason
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A wee explanation: this website was created as a way to amplify the daily surprise of seeing glory in one small life. The notebook entries represented here are all selected from things actually lived and noted on paper in an effort to live the full life British educator Charlotte Mason so ably championed.
Photos chosen are linked to their original posts in most cases because I have found something of value there and hope my readers will likewise find a helpful resource. In the case of miss-attribution or if you desire your work not be linked, please let me know.
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