Love this little gathering of good things to think on and explore further! I'm honored to be included. Thanks for sharing about my work! I'm currently reading The Silmarillion (for the 2nd time this year) and thoroughly enjoying it!
You're welcome, Breanne! I'm excited about Many Meetings and want to get the word out and was glad to share the quote from C.S. Lewis you shared also!
I'm reading The Silmarillion right now too! Just got Andy Serkis' audiobook version last week and am taking full advantage of time I have doing the dishes and other things of that nature to dive back in.
The quote about the atomic bomb really resonates after the first thing I saw this morning was news about mask mandates and variants and I thought "please not this again." It's a good quote to remember not having to live in fear, even in the unknown.
Love the third quote you shared. It's a good reminder to focus on what matters when society is freaking out (perhaps for good reason).
I've been reading a lot of Kierkegaard recently and this journal entry from near the end of his life struck me:
“This is all that I’ve known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.”
I am often worried about being wrong and saying something I shouldn't, but really all that matters is the important stuff as long as we admit when we're wrong.
George MacDonald wrote about the interwoven nature of joy with sorrow in Phantastes: "As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love."
Makes me think of this passage from 2 Corinthians 4: “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
Love this little gathering of good things to think on and explore further! I'm honored to be included. Thanks for sharing about my work! I'm currently reading The Silmarillion (for the 2nd time this year) and thoroughly enjoying it!
You're welcome, Breanne! I'm excited about Many Meetings and want to get the word out and was glad to share the quote from C.S. Lewis you shared also!
I'm reading The Silmarillion right now too! Just got Andy Serkis' audiobook version last week and am taking full advantage of time I have doing the dishes and other things of that nature to dive back in.
The quote about the atomic bomb really resonates after the first thing I saw this morning was news about mask mandates and variants and I thought "please not this again." It's a good quote to remember not having to live in fear, even in the unknown.
Agreed, it's so helpful as a reminder like that!
Love the third quote you shared. It's a good reminder to focus on what matters when society is freaking out (perhaps for good reason).
I've been reading a lot of Kierkegaard recently and this journal entry from near the end of his life struck me:
“This is all that I’ve known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.”
I am often worried about being wrong and saying something I shouldn't, but really all that matters is the important stuff as long as we admit when we're wrong.
Oh what a great insight by him: whatever else happens, God is nevertheless love. Thank you for sharing it!
George MacDonald wrote about the interwoven nature of joy with sorrow in Phantastes: "As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love."
This is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing it!
Makes me think of this passage from 2 Corinthians 4: “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV
Love this passage! Great connection to make with these other quotes.