So I’m just going to have to be the tacky one who bumps the pictures of Marisol down the page. Especially tacky since I have nothing of huge importance to say, and it can basically be summed up as, “Hey everyone! Stop looking at the baby and go look at my blog!” But there’s a new Purse up, so you’re going to need to trot along and enter for it.
And now, having gotten that off my chest, I’d like to deliver myself of my candid opinion of People Who Play Soccer. (Ok, just joking. But I’ll have to think up something to spout off about next, because there’s no denying that that was quite an amusing little explosion I sparked off!)
So here are a few more pics of our latest addition, Marisol Helen Wilson, aka The little gal who has been keeping her mother up at night. Fun times. Busy times. Gotta love it. Her daddy wrote her a lovely poem which can be found here. It made me happy.
So Bekah’s little post in the “spouting off” category has drawn nearly 100 comments, which is a record here at Femina. I’m trying to think of an appropriate prize for her if she gets to 100….any ideas? All I can think of is a gift my sister-in-law (who was living in Istanbul at the time) sent one Christmas. The whole extended family was assembled on Christmas Eve to open gifts. My mother-in-law opened hers, and it was a dark velvet tea cozy tastefully embellished with gold embroidery. Without a moment’s hesitation, my brother-in-law popped it up on his head (it looked just the shape of a bishop’s hat) and burst out singing “I Come to the Garden Alone.” Memorable.
I had not the slightest notion Bekah would draw so much fire for her observations about Canterbury, especially since the world-wide web is such a big place. But apparently it’s a small world after all. Kudos to Bekah! What ever shall we have her spout off about next? The Vatican?
“Don’t be too easily convinced that God really wants you to do all sorts of work you needn’t do. Each must do his duty ‘in that state of life to which God has called him.’ Remember that a belief in the virtues of doing for doing’s sake is characteristically feminine, characteristically American, and characteristically modern: so that three veils may divide you from the correct view! There can be intemperance in work just as in drink. What feels like zeal may be only fidgets or even the flattering of one’s self-importance. As MacDonald says, ‘In holy things may be unholy greed!’ And by doing what ‘one’s station and its duties’ does not demand, one can make oneself less fit for the duties it does demand and so commit some injustice. Just you give Mary a chance as well as Martha!”
C.S. Lewis, Letters to An American Lady
“When all is said (and truly said) about the divisions of Christendom, there remains, by God’s mercy, an enormous common ground.”
C.S. Lewis
A friend has loaned me his 1663 edition of A Compleat Collection of Farewell Sermons which includes many of the sermons preached on Sunday, August 17, 1662, by some of England’s greatest preachers. Following the Act of Uniformity of 1662, close to 2,000 ministers left their pulpits rather than compromise their faith. Of particular interest to me are the sermons (one forenoon and one afternoon) by Thomas Watson, and before I return this rare treasure of a book, I wanted to post up a couple of quotes for you.
“We are to love the people of God, although they have many weak infirmities; shew me the man that is perfect, and let him throw the first stone, even the best. Saints like the Stars they have their twinkling, they have their blemishes and their failings: in some there’s too much pride, in others too much censoriousness, in others too much rash anger and passion, but we must love the grace that is in them, not withstanding the infirmities that are in them; you love gold though in the oare, and mixed with much impurity; a Saint on earth, is like a Diamond that hath it’s flaw, like to the Rose that is sweet Continue reading ‘God’s Jewels’
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