In every visit, every meeting I attend, every appointment I keep, I have been anticipated. The risen Christ is in that room already. What is he doing? What is he saying? What is going on?
- Eugene Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant, 127.
Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. First usage recorded: 1578. - OED
Friday, April 26, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
House Love
How can we help loving houses when they stand to us for so much...Warmth and protection and a means of expressing ourselves. You love a new house because it stands there waiting to be good to human beings and an old one because it has been.
-Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells, 68.
-Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells, 68.
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