EVIL GOOD
I am cast upon a horrible desolate But I am alive, and not drowned, island, void of all hope of recovery. as all my ship's company was. I am singled out and separated, But I am singled out, too from all as it were, from all the world to be the ship's crew to be spared from miserable. death: and He that miraculously saved me from death can deliver me from this condition. I am divided from mankind, a But I am not starved and perishing on solitaire, one banished from human a barren place, affording no sustenance. society. I have no clothes to cover me. But I am in a hot climate, where if I had clothes I could hardly wear them. I am without defense or But I am cast on an island, where I means to resist any violence of see no wild beasts to hurt me, as I man or beast. saw on the coast of Africa. And what if I had been shipwrecked there? I have no soul to speak to, or But God wonderfully sent the ship in relieve me. near enough to the shore that I have gotten out so many necessary things as will either supply my wants, or enable me to supply myself even as long as I live.
1 Comment
|
"Ideas
|
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.
All
Book Of Centuries
Book Of Firsts
Church Year
Commonplace
Copywork
Enquire Within
Fortitude Journal
Gratitude Journal
Keeping
Music Notebook
Nature Notebook
Notebooks
Picture File
Poetry
Prayer Journal
Recipes
Zeitgeist