Past tears

Dieppe, Normandy

"Past tears are present strength."

~George MacDonald

What it had to be

"This life has shown me how we're mended and how we're torn 

How it's okay to be lonely as long as you're free 

Sometimes my ground was stoney 

And sometimes covered up with thorns 

And only You could make it what it had to be."

~Rich Mullins

Pleasure in the pathless

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

   There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society where none intrudes,

   By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

   I love not man the less, but nature more."

~George Gordon Byron

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

Deeper meaning

"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."

~Vincent van Gogh

Larger hope

"The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected
with the greater pains of Christ.
Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow, and therefore a larger hope."
~Henri Nouwen

C.S. Lewis

Amerongen

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
~C.S. Lewis, A grief observed

We have nothing to lose

Kasteel Amerongen, Mei 2018

"The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose."

~Brennan Manning

Marriage of the soul

"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, 

and gives birth to imagination."

~Henry David Thoreau

Yesterday and today and forever

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

~Hebrews 13:8

Keep them

April 2018

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo ©

"I do not ask that You take them out of the world,
but that You keep them from the evil one."

~John 17:15

Who truly see

Huis Doorn

"We have to be in trouble,

before we remember for what is essential.

Those who truly see you, are the ones you need."

~John O'Donohue