PERSONAL NOTE

Obviously months have passed since the first post on this blog, months in which "the beauty of the Lord" has brightened more moments than I could possibly describe: in the faces of newborn infants, in the impartation of strong hope, fresh vision, and new strength, in the revelation given at the homegoing of a dear friend, in the indescribable golden stillness of evening. Yet I find myself at a loss when I try to capture these beauties with words.

So the following posts will contain, for the most part, excerpts of writings (some of them from favorite authors or poets) that have comprised some of the countless graces that from the past right up to the present have quickened my heart because someone has succeeded in capturing with words glimpses of what I also know of "the splendor of the King".

For the most part I would like to let each of these stand on their own, without comment from me, with the hope that they will refresh you and point you also heavenward!

"TOO HIGH FOR ME"
by Amy Carmichael

"I have no word,
But neither hath the bird,
And it is heard;
My heart is singing, singing all day long,
In quiet joy to Thee who art my Song.

For as Thy majesty,
So is Thy mercy,
So is Thy mercy,
My Lord and My God.

How intimate
Thy ways with those who wait
About Thy gates;
But who could show the fashion of such ways
In human words, and hymn them to Thy praise?

Too high for me,
Far shining mystery,
Too high to see;
But not too high to know, though out of reach
Of words to sing its gladness into speech."