About 4 years ago, I stumbled upon something I really liked which I was good at--starting and running businesses, and getting them from a gleam in the eye and a buzz in the brain to profitable concerns. And each business has had moments in which … [Continue reading]
A gorgeous passage of restoration. Micah 7.
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. 9 Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD's wrath, until he pleads my case and establishes my … [Continue reading]
Garden news–Queen Anne’s Lace and buttercups. Flowering Judas tree
May 17th, 2010 I went for my daily run in our paddock today. The rain overnight had made the tall, flowering Queen Anne's Lace bunch together so that it was like a sea of white. I couldn't bear to run through it and trample it. The buttercups … [Continue reading]
Great satisfaction in simple things. Organization in the age of Affluenza
It's odd how much satisfaction one can derive from simple things. My clothes were all higgledy-piggledy in my dresser, and I took them out, folded them neatly to find more space, and gritted my teeth and got rid of things which were faded, or looked … [Continue reading]
In which the Best Known Literary Passages are, in fact, from the Bible!
What are the best known pieces of writing of all time? The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of … [Continue reading]
The Transforming Mystical Experience of Frank Laubach
One of my favourite Christians is Frank Laubach, whose literacy program "Each One Teach One" taught 60 million people to read. I cannot speak too highly of his little book, "Prayer, the Mightiest Force in the World." Here is his account of his … [Continue reading]
John Donne “The Holy Ghost,” a powerful poem
The Holy Ghost O Holy Ghost, whose temple I Am, but of mud walls and condensed dust, And being sacrilegiously Half wasted with youth’s fires, of pride and lust Must with new storms be weather-beat; Double in my heart Thy flame, Which let … [Continue reading]
In praise, once again, of country living
We had dinner last night at Stanton St. John, a pretty village about 5 miles from Oxford. I enjoyed driving there. Everything was pretty, picturesque. Wide open spaces for the spirit to unfurl. Leaving Oxford to my village, Garsington, is a … [Continue reading]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 248
- 249
- 250
- 251
- 252
- …
- 279
- Next Page »