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> ' ... How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource!
We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. ... ' <
... George MacDonald (1824-1905) -
"Once upon a time
--- now nearly thirty years ago ( Read more... ) -
Amy Carmichael
Have found this beautiful poem on another's entry - and am asking anyone here who loves Amy Carmichael's writings(as I do) - do you recognise it as one of hers? If so, which book is it in? Thanks for your help ( Read more... ) -
a goodly heritage
Why are these old hymn words coming to me tonight, I wonder? It could have been about the 1930's that I knew "Hushed was the evening hymn" was one of my Dad's favourites. Here are the last verses, which make me thankful for knowing him ( Read more... ) -
Mothering Sunday
is celebrated during the Lenten season, but "Mothers' Day" was acknowledged here yesterday.
How could I not remember George MacDonald's story 'Sir Gibbie', and the wonderful chapter "Refuge". Read it, and be blessed. -
enclosed by His love
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have just read
this lovely phrase about Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne(1813-1843) of St. Peter's Church, Dundee, Scotland: it was written of him that he had
"that disentangled pilgrim-look which showed plainly that he 'sought a city;' " -
Picnic
Have been enjoying the lovely ambiance of the possible picnic places photo'd by *IslandBoy*. I've decided I must at once "go on a picnic" myself - why do we always go ON a picnic I wonder :) we do that same here, way-down-under ( Read more... ) -
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since reading the entry today about the church in Smyrna[Izmir] this old song has been singing itself into my heart. -
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> '... But, you object, a heart like mine can offer Christ so little - at best, so poor and pinched and stingy a hospitality and such meagre fare; for I have nothing worthy of Him to set before Him, only a kind of affection, real enough at times, but which, at others, can and does so easily forget; only a will, quite unreliable, deplorably unstable ( Read more... )