A Tearful Dream

“The sun shines, the wind blows soft, the summer is in the land; but your summer sun and your winter fire is gone, and the world is waste to you. So let it be. Your life is hid with Christ in God, at the heart of all summers — so “comfort thyself” that this world …

Hang On

In the struggle for existence, it is only those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.— GK Chesterton -

This Much – O Heaven

THIS much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave, Pity me not; but let the world be fed, Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead, Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave. If I dare snarl between this sun and sod, Whimper and clamour, give me grace to own, In sun …

Sorrow

There is no evil in sorrow. True, it is not an essential good, a good in itself, like love; but it will mingle with any good thing, and is even so allied to good that it will open the door of the heart for any good. — George MacDonald

The Triple Fool

I am two fools, I know,       For loving, and for saying so           In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I,           If she would not deny? Then as th' earth's inward narrow crooked lanes     Do purge sea water's fretful salt away, I thought, if I could draw my pains …

The Fundamental Thing

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial. ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

More, Not Less

“Ah, reader! It may be your cloud has not passed, and you scorn to hear it called one, priding yourself that your trouble is eternal. But just because you are eternal, your trouble cannot be. You may cling to it, and brood over it, but you cannot keep it from either blossoming into a bliss, …

Solid and Whole

But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be. – JRR Tolkien

God Suffers With His Creatures

"They killed him, you know, my lady, in a terrible way that one is afraid even to think of. But he insisted that he laid down his life; that he allowed them to take it. Now I ask whether that grandest thing, crowning his life, the yielding of it to the hand of violence, he …

Take 4

I just got through a fresh listen to Till We shave Faces, and it's been a great & deep experience every time for me, with room to see & appreciate more on subsequent reads. I really like the aspect of Lewis's treatment and answer to lament of "Job" in this book, much like GKC's The …