I am in a time of renovation. A new course of dreaming, a new shape for the future, a new way of thinking about my life and the future. This blog is going to reflect that pretty soon. I apologize for my continued, sporadic absences. I’ve traveled almost nonstop since Jan. 1, but I have [...]
Postcards From the Land of Contemplation
Earth could not answer, nor the seas that mourn... by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming.
Reading:
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder- This is brilliant. A story that takes you on a tour of Western philosophy.
Sacred Legacy by Myrna Grant- a collection of ancient writings from nine early Christian women. These are kinda dangerous because they make you want to be passionate about loving God. A good dangerous.
The Brontes by Rebecca Fraser- I think I've found my alter ego.
In my ears:
The Girl Who Couldn't Fly Kate Rusby. I listened to her folk songs when I traveled England. Perfect.
Night as Bright as Day Joel Clarkson (yep, my brother!)
Rich Mullins
There's a wideness in God's mercy,
I cannot find in my own
And he keeps his fire burning
To melt this heart of stone,
Keeps me aching, with a yearning,
Keeps me glad to have been caught,
In the reckless, raging fury,
That they call the love of God.C.S. Lewis
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.Madeleine L’Engle
A great painting, or symphony, or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of creation behind the universe.Charles Van Sandwyk
Each time pen goes to paper, the general idea is to try to make the most beautiful book in the world. I’ve failed every time, but it’s still the impetus.Wendell Berry
Imagine the dead waking, dazed, into a shadowless light in which they know themselves all together for the first time. It is a light that is merciless until they can accept its mercy... In it, they are loved completely, even as they have been, and so are changed into what they could not have been, but what, if they could have imagined it, they would have wished to be.Loreena McKennit
I heard an old voice say,
Don't go far from the land,
The seasons have their way,
No mortal can understand...J.R.R. Tolkien
Romance is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of eucatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world poignant as grief.George MacDonald
Be sure that if you go on inquiring, you will find the truth- enough of it to keep you alive and wishing for more, and that is enough for us at a time.Leif Enger
I breathe deeply and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers. Is there a single person on whom I can press my belief? No sir. All I can do is say, here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and I'm going back. Make of it what you will.Elizabeth Goudge
Faithful... supposed that the harder one's life is the more desperate must be the struggle to find out how to be happy, and the more likely to be successful.G.K. Chesterton
He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.George Eliot
We are all imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.o world i cannot get thee close enough
