All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. …
Timely advice, just when I was wishing things would move more quickly..
The Slow Work of God…
My mother always told me: “Praise the Lord! Even through gritted teeth.” And no one describes better than Tolkien the grim resolution to continue on the way…
I am in a mood. And this song about sums it up. This last week without my husband is already one of the hardest weeks of the summer. And it’s only Monday.…
A dear friend shared this song with me tonight. She told me it reminds her of her brother, who was killed several years ago…
M: “I know how hard you’ve been praying, and God’s answering your prayers.”
Lewis: “That’s not why I pray. I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and …
“Very few people ever state properly the strong argument in favour of marrying for love or against marrying for money.…
It is possible for us to hear the word of God because God’s world is open to us. Most Christians do not realize that this is by no means a matter of course, but a miracle of the Father’s utterly …
Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day.…
Clear was the night: the moon was young:
The larkspurs in the plots
Mingled their orange with the gold
Of the forget-me-nots.…
“Even at Vespers in these days Abbess Catherine, as if echoing the abbot’s words, thought, as the antiphon to the Magnificat was sung, of the Visitation, when the Virgin Mary, with the angel’s announcement beating in her heart, had gone …
a world big enough for all the lives He wishes to be born. It is only our hearts that are not big enough to want them and accept them……
…“You must not mind my asking you questions, for you may ask me the same questions, every one of them, and any others that you like. How old are you?”
“Ten,” answered Tangle.
“You don’t look like it,” said the
…like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. …