new year – how faint a whisper

days of small things

give me eyes for the small things and in them to see Your likeness and Your desire and Your blessings but to need them not for any of these but only for the reason that You have seen fit to call them good for me and for Your glory put my hands to the plowContinue reading “days of small things”

looking behind

“You say grace before meals All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and the pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing; And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” G.K. Chesterton,Continue reading “looking behind”