Anybody who loves must always be prepared to have his plans interrupted. We must be ready to be surprised by tasks which God sets for us today. God is always compelling us to improvise. For God's tasks always have about them something surprising and unexpected, and this imprisoned, wounded, distressed brother, in whom the Saviour meets us, is always turning up on our path just at the time when we are about to do something else, just when we are occupied with altogether different duties. God is always a God of surprises, not only in the way in which he helps us for God's help too always comes from unexpected directions—but also in the manner in which he confronts me with tasks to perform and sends people across my path.
-Helmust Thielicke's sermon on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, H/T Alan Jacobs
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
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Friday, March 25, 2022
A Little Region to Wander in
...Why endeavour after a long Poem? To which I should answer - Do not the Lovers of Poetry like to have a little Region to wander in where they may pick and choose, and in which the images are so numerous that many are forgotten and found new in a second Reading: which may be food for a Weeks's stroll in the Summer?
- John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 10/8/1817
- John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 10/8/1817
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