From "David Elginbrod": the prayer at the cottage:“O thou, wha keeps the stars alicht, an’ our souls burnin’ wi’ a licht aboon that o’ the stars, grant that they may shine afore thee as the stars for ever and ever. An’ as thou hauds the stars burnin’ a’ the nicht, whan there’s no man to … Continue reading Be Thou by Us
Month: July 2017
Waiting Watchful for Thy Will
O master, my desires to work, to know,To be aware that I do live and grow—All restless wish for anything not thee,I yield, and on thy altar offer me.Let me no more from out thy presence go,But keep me waiting watchful for thy will—Even while I do it, waiting watchful still.— George MacDonald
The Outstretched Arms of Love
Why I Love George MacDonald:"To Polwarth, a human self was a shrine to be approached with reverence, even when he bore deliverance in his hand. Anywhere, everywhere, in the seventh heaven or the seventh hell, he could worship God with the outstretched arms of love, the bended knees of joyous adoration, but in helping his … Continue reading The Outstretched Arms of Love
GLORIA IN PROFUNDIS
There has fallen on earth for a token A god too great for the sky. He has burst out of all things and broken The bounds of eternity: Into time and the terminal land He has strayed like a thief or a lover, For the wine of the world brims over, Its splendour is … Continue reading GLORIA IN PROFUNDIS
How We Have Learned Christ
"But for him who is in earnest about the will of God, it is of endless consequence that he should think rightly of God. He cannot truly know His will while his notion of Him is in any point that of a false god. If such a man seem to himself to be giving up … Continue reading How We Have Learned Christ
Not With the Eyes
“So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste; And therefore is … Continue reading Not With the Eyes
Because Thou Knowest
I cannot tell why this day I am ill; But I am well because it is thy will— Which is to make me pure and right like thee. Not yet I need escape—'tis bearable Because thou knowest. And when harder things Shall rise and gather, and overshadow me, I shall have comfort in thy strengthenings.
The Course of True Love
Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low! Or else misgraffed in respect of years; -- O spite! Too old to be engag'd to young! Or else it … Continue reading The Course of True Love
A Wedding in War Time
Our God who made two lovers in a garden, And smote them separate and set them free, Their four eyes wild for wonder and wrath and pardon And their kiss thunder as lips of land and sea: Each rapt unendingly beyond the other, Two starry worlds of unknown gods at war, Wife and … Continue reading A Wedding in War Time
The Power to Translate
You must translate every bit of your Theology into the vernacular. This is very troublesome, and it means you can say very little in half an hour, but it is essential. It is also the greatest service to your own thoughts. I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into … Continue reading The Power to Translate
Following A Star 