Archives for June 2010
Irene and the Oxford High School Fete
Irene and friends ran an eccentric stall at the school fete yesterday that only could have been thought of by Irene– & it was!
Irene is still on a high after all the wild and wacky games she devised for her school fete stall worked. Retrieve your challenge–on a plastic card–from a tub of jelly, whipped cream, & ice : challenges like eat all the Quality Streets you can in 1 min.
Having a stall was optional this year and I wasn’t keen. But she was.
It’s important to let children organize things!Organizing things lets children see the transition from ideas, dreaming and inspiration to reality, and makes them detail-focused and organized. Useful whether running a business, decorating, organizing a party, event, or cooking. Yay for Irene.
Just 2 years ago, I went around with her, fondly calling her Baby Doll, secretly slipping extra money into her purse as she ran low, and smiling as she showed off about her budgeting skills and how much she could buy with her savings–£ 2. How she’s grown!
Birdsong and Tagore
I lay in bed this morning listening to an absolutely beautiful and rhapsodic chorus of birdsong.
And thought how God is just, how his best gifts are given freely to rich and poor, clever and challenged, talented and not-so-talented alike.
I thought of a poem by Tagore
“”My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou
save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into
my life through and through.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that
thou gavest to me unasked—this sky and the light, this body and the
life and the mind—saving me from perils of overmuch desire.
There are times when I languidly linger and times when I awaken and
hurry in search of my goal; but cruelly thou hidest thyself from
before me.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of thy full acceptance by
refusing me ever and anon, saving me from perils of weak, uncertain
desire”
When we are not “right,” God says “Grow” before giving us our heart’s desire
On radiance despite our shame
Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. Psalm 34:5
Shame is inevitable. We are people of unclean lips, and we live amidst a people of unclean lips. We are foolish, impulsive, make errors, misjudge, sin.
And radiance despite our sins, failures and shortcomings?
From looking to Him, to his acceptance. From dancing closely with Him.
From hearing him sing over us the Father’s Song.
I have heard so many songs
Listened to a thousand tongues
But there is one
That sounds above them all
The Father’s song
The Father’s love
You sung it over me and for eternity
It’s written on my heart
CHORUS:
Heaven’s perfect melody
The Creator’s symphony
You are singing over me
The Father’s song
Heaven’s perfect mystery
The king of love has sent for me
And now you’re singing over me
The Father’s song.
The Father’s song
The Father’s love
You sung it over me and for eternity
It’s written on my heart
Matt Redman
In which I read at the Anchor Pub
Good description of Christian creativity. Rabindranath Tagore. Geetanjali
“Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.”
Rabindranath Tagore.
Philip Pullman, On being found by your Muse
Philip Pullman, On being found by your Muse
Philip Pullman, “If you want your muse to find you, make sure you’re at your desk.”
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