No, says Dante; it is because if she smiled, in this world her beauty would be so overwhelming that he would be destroyed by it like Semele who burned to ashes when Zeus appeared to her in his glory. Why does a rose have thorns? I am out of the habit of coping with the quiet, even though I grew up in the countryside where there was nothing but the sound of the sea and the wind and maybe insects buzzing, birds calling; where, as a child, for hours I would be playing on my own, climbing the willow trees and just listening to the world around me.
God is not good enough. You gave it her. I dislike and I deny the divine right of kings. ... A meadowlark pierced the silence with its sharp whistling song. Sometimes it's a poem, a life-changing quote, a piece of extraordinary writing, or a well-written paragraph of a character, and all that jazz. I added a second part that layers on top of the round. Yet when Lazarus is laid in the tomb and Jesus finally arrives, it is Martha who runs forth to meet Him while Mary remains at home. Thanks to both of you for a dose of sanity.I’ll add that not only does it follow nicely after CM’s article on Getting Lost, but also Lisa Dye’s article on dying to self for the Lord.
this month visiting family.
What have you got to say for yourself, eh?”“The other gentleman,” cried Turnbull, scornfully, “is a submissive and loyal and obedient gentleman.
On the psychedelic "Earthbow," Sarah Louise explores her relationship with the natural world with sounds both organic and synthetic. “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.”I’m digging up some of the old stuff I’ve collected. Why do growing pains hurt? Courtesy : Sanjida Sultana Sokal
The psychiatrist, humming quietly, fitted the new wrist radio to his wrist, flipped the intercom, talked a moment, picked up one telephone, talked, picked up another telephone, talked, picked up the third telephone, talked, touched the wrist-radio button, talked calmly and quietly, his face cool and serene, in the middle of the music and the lights flashing, the two phones ringing again, and his hands moving, and his wrist radio buzzing, and the intercoms talking, and voices speaking from the ceiling. To take the example of Martha and Mary again, we take Mary as representing “the better part” because she sat at the feet of the Lord and learned in silence, rather than being “busy with many cares” like Martha.
In short, a collection of the good stuff. Why do rhinoceroses have horns? A great time to consider all the things that God has done for us, is doing for us, and will yet do for us.This follows nicely after Mike’s article on busyness. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from The Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.
Quite a bit of her writing is devoted to describing her practice of “mental prayer.” She struggled with a very active mind and sought by this practice to overcome the voice of her own thoughts trying to usurp the Spirit. But I love the sense Merton gives it in 'The Stranger' - like his, for us at least this has been a desert full of small birds watching the work of God, and of foxes barking at night to the passing owls, under clear skies, to tell of the way it is. We are so accustomed to constant noise and having our ears filled up that it is disconcerting to be cut off. What do you mean by it?”The unhappy lunatic had fallen back before this quite novel form of attack, and lifted his burnt-out cigarette almost like one warding off a blow. "Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Wizard of Earthsea"~I'm digging up some of the old stuff I've collected. It is a kind of a desert at the moment, isn't it? Easy enough to figure that one out, right? released September 11, 2018
Do we have anything to say? Found a notebook in which I attempted to do the same- …
38. His spirit lay upon the house, or even on the whole earth, with a cold pressure such as might flatten the very orb of Tellus to a wafer.
“Only in silence the word Only in dark the light Bright the hawk’s Flight on the empty sky” - INEMOUSE (@inemouse)
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
“It has been awful. But I dislike more and I deny more the divine right of divinity.”That is the silence in Revelation, when the seventh seal is opened, and “it was silent in heaven for about half an hour.” I don’t know about you, but that strikes me not as a comforting, easeful, peaceful silence but rather a brooding, foreboding, anticipatory silence.