Again, I am enraptured by a blog I came across this afternoon. She is an old friend, one who I have taken many lakeside walks with and talked deeply with. One who I haven’t spoken to in years but I admire the woman she has become and is becoming. And her blog is captivating:
Some highlights:
Every arrow in the bow of desire
has rushed out in hope
of nearing
Him.
Thomas Aquinas
He has an especial tenderness of love toward thee for that thou art in the dark and hast no light, and His heart is glad when thou doest arise and say, “I will go to my Father.” . . . Fold the arms of thy faith, and wait in the quietness until light goes up in thy darkness. -George MacDonald
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. -from Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
And a couple images:
A dog on a bed in a bright bedroom. I wouldn't mind being here.
The little village Steven lives in in Germany is much like the village this movie takes place in.
