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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Daisies Talking
The daisies have been talking again – the girls brought in a clump the other day from their Saturday afternoon hours in the country. Somewhere long ago I saw that the reason they spread out their leaves flat on the … Continue reading
Posted in life, light, nature, renewal
Tagged Amy Carmichael, art, Kathleen Norris, light, Lilias Trotter, Oswald Chambers, refreshment, renewal
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Desert Lily
Today’s find was beautiful to the inward vision as well as to the outward. It was clusters of exquisite wild lilies – white and fragile and fragrant – growing out of the hot salt sand that drifts into dunes round the … Continue reading
Is Not Jesus Enough?
“The thought of Christ’s intercession has taken on a new preciousness these last days. I was reading how God had given a wonderful gift of prayer to two friends. They would fight through together till His answer came over … Continue reading
Posted in difficulty, Faith
Tagged art, Lilias Trotter, Paul Gerhardt, Richard Foster, sufficiency of Jesus
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Star of Wonder!
“The sense of Epiphany came before the dawn in the tremulous clanging of the church bell of Blida. So gentle at first that it might almost have been the tinkling of the wise men’s camels – a growing into a crescendo … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphany, gifts, light
Tagged art, Christiana Rossetti, Epiphany, gifts, Henry Vaughn, Lilias Trotter
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