large as this longing


thoughts from solitude
March 7, 2009, 10:18 pm
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A couple days ago I took the opportunity to get away.  It was only about 24 hours, but my time in this little cabin in the woods brought me to a place whebo_exteriorre I was able to listen…a discipline that I do not do often enough.  Here are some thoughts that jumped out at me while reading:

“As a masterpiece opens a window into the mind of the artist who made it, so the universe reveals much about its creator.”  Ric Ergenbright, The Art of God

I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself.  I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention.  I wondered what it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere I go being reminded of myself.”  Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”  Ecclesiastes 3:11