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"Life is not hurrying onto a receding future, nor "Life is not hurrying onto a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you." -RS Thomas, from The Bright Field, cited in Malcolm Guite's Word in the Wilderness, a poem a day for Lent and Easter. . . . #poetryforever #pilgrimage #MalcolmGuite #Lent RSThomas #stplacidpriory
"Christians should be judged, I think, by their st "Christians should be judged, I think, by their stickableness, since by that alone can God get anything done in this world; that appears to be disintegrating now before our horrified eyes from sheer lack of glue." -Elizabeth Goudge, The Joy of the Snow, 1976. #readupstream #ElizabethGoudge #faith #imaginationredeemed
Current view. #priorities (cupcake, Bibles, favori Current view. #priorities (cupcake, Bibles, favorite book, cup of tea.)
Good morning. It's a new day. Amen and hallelujah. Good morning. It's a new day. Amen and hallelujah. #creationspeaks #sunshine #shadowsandlight #newmercies
My art journal page from today, listening to @pray My art journal page from today, listening to @prayasugo selection for this morning. God did indeed bring some clarity, and helped me see many things as I listened to the passage about temptation. What do I tend to overdo or exaggerate? Taking on way too much worry disguised as prayer. Heard the Holy Spirit whisper, "Ask me what you're supposed to pick up and what your part is in the answers." #prayer #prayasyougo #spiritualpractice ##artjournaling
"The reason life works at all is because not every "The reason life works at all is because not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day." @annelamott Yes! (HT @joannajharding) #friendswithpens #friendsforever #friend #bettertogether
"God put the world square with himself through the "God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you. 2 Corinthians 5:16-20 ish The Message Bible #reconciliation #Godspeople #MessageBible #vision2020 (larkspur, garden last year)
"There's no Shadow you won't light up, Mountain y "There's no Shadow you won't light up, Mountain you won't climb up comin after me No wall you won't kick down, Lie you won't tear down comin after me." #amen #sundaymorning
A Lens -Malcolm Guite Not that we summon him, but A Lens -Malcolm Guite Not that we summon him, but that he lends The very means whereby he might be known, Till this opacity of stone on stone, This trace of light & music on the air, This sacred space itself becomes a lens To sense his presence who is everywhere. (Second stanza. From Malcolm's newest book, "After Prayer" Canterbury Press). . . . #beautymatters #poetryforever #sonnets #light #grunewaldguild
you are loved and held and cared for more than the you are loved and held and cared for more than the birds of the air. And your Father has promised to feed you, because He loves you. #godslove #valentinesday
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