Good Friday

2008-02-03T11:26:00.000-08:00

Today, I was reading some of George Herbert's works and came across a poem of his that I liked especially, and thought I'd point you to it. It is titled Good Friday, and is an excellent reminder to keep the Death and Agony of Christ in our minds. This was especially meaningful to me today, as we celebrated the Lord's Supper in church. If you don't have time to read it all, skip to the last three quatrains.

Good Friday

    O my chief good,
How shall I measure out thy blood ?
How shall I count what thee befell,
      And each grief tell?

Shall I thy woes
Number according to thy foes ?
Or, since one star show'd thy first breath,
Shall all thy death ?

Or shall each leaf,
Which falls in Autumn, score a grief?
Or cannot leaves, but fruit, be sign,
Of the true vine ?

Then let each hour
Of my whole life one grief devour;
That thy distress through all may run,
And be my sun.

Or rather let
My several sins their sorrows get;
That, as each beast his cure doth know,
Each sin may so.

Since blood is fittest, Lord, to write
Thy sorrows in, and bloody fight;
My heart hath store; write there, where in
One box doth lie both ink and sin :

That when Sin spies so many foes,
Thy whips, thy nails, thy wounds, thy woes,
All come to lodge there, Sin may say,
No room for me, and fly away.

Sin being gone, O fill the place,
And keep possession with thy grace;
Lest sin take courage and return,
And all the writings blot or burn.

                  -George Herbert

Look who's back in business...

2008-01-19T11:21:00.000-08:00

I've reentered the blogosphere once again. So, hopefully, I'll be able to post something here every so often (meaning maybe, every other day, weekly, a few times a month...more than once every 8 months). So, yep. Here I am.

Things are going well here in LVille. Today we're keeping ourselves busy by cleaning out the closet in the spare room and moving half of the stuff into a new storage locker we just rented out. I'm also sorting out my books--finding which ones can be boxed and stored, as well as organizing the shelves. I took apart this one ugly shelf we were using for books and will store it away for later use...in a garage someday.

Make sure everyone checks out Cari's wedding blog. If you're wondering what I mean, then check it out. There is a tab at the top of my blog that will direct you there, or click on the link just to the right of this post. I'll write something more interesting another time. For now, we'll call it good enough to have reentered the realm of blogging.

SM

Quaere Verum

Good Friday

Look who's back in business...