- "The greatest happiness in the world is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
- -- Victor Hugo
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Loved...
Consider The Lilies Of The Field
LOWERS preach to us if we will hear:--The rose saith in the dewy morn:
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.
The poppy saith amid the corn:
Let but my scarlet head appear
And I am held in scorn;
Yet juice of subtle virtue lies
Within my cup of curious dyes.
The lilies say: Behold how we
Preach, without words, of purity.
The violets whisper from the shade
Which their own leaves have made:
Men scent our fragrance on the air,
Yet take no heed
Of humble lessons we would read.
But not alone the fairest flowers:
The merest grass
Along the roadside where we pass,
Lichen and moss and sturdy weed,
Tell of His love who sends the dew,
The rain and sunshine too,
To nourish one small seed.
- --Christina Rossetti
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Watered...
“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In An Artist's Studio
One face looks out from all his canvases,One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans:
We found her hidden just behind those screens,
That mirror gave back all her loveliness.
A queen in opal or in ruby dress,
A nameless girl in freshest summer-green,
A saint, an angel --every canvas means
The same one meaning, neither more nor less.
He feeds upon her face by day and night,
And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:
Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.
--Christina Rossetti
Friday, July 17, 2009
Do not assume...
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now lives untroubledamong the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life
may also have much sadness and difficulty that remain far beyond yours.
Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
--Author Unknown
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Always
"Always take the Most Blessed Virgin as your model. Speak to her, heart to heart... Ask her to be your guide, to be your star, the lighthouse which shines in the midst of the darkness of your life."
--Saint Teresa of the Andes
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