May 2013
2 posts
I write like James Joyce →
“At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, “Life is not worth...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Heretics
A Service of
(via gkchestertonquote)
January 2012
6 posts
Time by George Herbert
Time.
MEeting with Time, slack thing, said I,
Thy sithe is dull; whet it for shame.
No marvell Sir, he did replie,
If it at length deserve some blame:
But where one man would have me grinde it,
Twentie for one too sharp do finde it.
Perhaps some such of old did passe,
Who above all things lov’d this life:
To whom thy sithe a hatchet was,
Which now is but a pruning knife.
Christs...
“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
December 2011
24 posts
Epistle of Liebesfreud (Joy of Love)
Crowned Head,
from the very moment that breath comes through my senses, I am certain of my being— it is your breath that brings me living.
I often wonder many times for I long for your wholeness to suppress me and capture me and redeem me in the shadow of loneliness, I yearn for much— to take my spirit away in our Haven.
but this Love calls for endurance and perseverance—...
the other side of me
“The good I want to do, I do not do; the evil that I do not want to do, I do. I grieve, for my temper, my pride, my self-will, the bad thoughts I permit, the unkind, things I say.—but because of your grace I stand here unashamed- it is when I surrender myself where your grace works so well.”
Glorious pause
God certainly wants you to tell Him all about your thoughts, desires, and struggles. But, He also wants you to listen.
“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...”
“We read to know that we are not alone.”
― C.S. Lewis”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What!...”
