", the road is life."

Divine Fire

“The fire of God, which is His essential being, His love, His creative power, is a fire unlike it’s earthly symbol in this, that it is only at a distance it burns-that the further from Him, it burns the worse.” -G. McD.

Law and Spirit

“The commandments can never be kept while there is a strife to keep them: the man is overwhelmed in the weight of their broken pieces. It needs a clean heart to have pure hands, all the power of a live soul to keep the law - a power of life, not of struggle; the strength of love, not the effort of duty.”

-George MacDonald

Loved this one today. The implications of these words cut straight to the core of the issue: the heart. It hit me hard today.

It is finished

I’m reading an anthology composed by CS Lewis of excerpts from George MacDonald this year. MacDonald was a Scottish author that greatly influenced Lewis and his writings. This book is filled with amazing eye-opening writings and sometimes just the same “mundane” Christian stories come to new life in from MacDonald’s beautiful imagery. I will try not to post them everyday, cause they are all awesome, but this was today:

“…when the agony of death was over, when the storm of the world died away behind His retiring spirit, he entered the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence…”

I have a tumblr???

Man, the last time I posted to this I posted a picture of a wine bottle.  It is definitely one of my favorite wines…but what really hits home about this picture is where I was 2 years ago: in my Grandparents kitchen.  This would be the last time I saw my grandmother.  She died a few weeks later from lung cancer.  A year and a half later my grandfather would also pass away.  Who knew a picture of an alcoholic beverage would be so sobering?  I miss them both.