I got the idea for this new blog at the end of the week of New Wine, a Christian festival in Somerset, in August 2011. You might guess from my profile that, although not entirely house-bound, I don't very often get out, and it occurred to me that I might try to create a blog to encourage in our faith people like me whose lives are limited in one way or another. I'm hoping that readers will feel able to contribute their own positive ideas. I'm not sure how it will work, but here goes...!
Teach me, my God and King, in all things Thee to see...
A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye,
Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass
And then the heaven espy.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Monday 10 October 2011
Persistence
"The reason why God calls for perseverance is not... that he wishes to test our faith... But he may wish to deepen it. The thing that will most deepen it is to persist with faith through disappointment" (William Temple).
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