In Brokenness and Surrender

"I have grown to love secrecy…The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it."

"The only right response to such mercy and grace is our everything. All our time, all our decisions, and everything we say and are"

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Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d anything.

“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be here”;
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
“Who made the eyes but I?”

“Truth, Lord, but I have marr’d them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
“And know you not,” says Love, “who bore the blame?”
“My dear, then I will serve.”
“You must sit down,” says Love, “and taste my meat.”
So I did sit and eat.

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"It was from the Lion that the light came. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful."

"Child,” said the Voice, “I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own."