Monthly Archives: October 2013

Sunshine of My Happy Heart

“The peaks of the Mischabel were just shouting for joy this morning in radiant snow, after a day’s storm, and the late filaments of cloud were dancing round their crests. Oh it is a wonderful world.”   28 August 1901 Autumn … Continue reading

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Making God Visible

“It was good to turn our backs on the long French streets and plunge down among the crowds, first through a street thronged with Jews, then a little bit up again through the native quarter, and then down the flight … Continue reading

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Living in the Meanwhile

  “When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.”    29 December 1903 “How do we live in the meanwhile?”  These words have been playing over and over in … Continue reading

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The Poetry of God’s Ways

All that outworking of His Grace has come so silently – “not with observation” – like His work in all growth around – so that one can hardly tell when or how the expansion has come.   9 March 23 “All that … Continue reading

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