tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post2400830724287124265..comments2024-03-26T17:44:29.168+00:00Comments on The Mercy Blog: AdventMike Farleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06732248182662167951noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-36063018720854119122019-12-04T08:52:22.132+00:002019-12-04T08:52:22.132+00:00Oh, Psalm 131! There's a Psalm I carry with me...Oh, Psalm 131! There's a Psalm I carry with me, too. And recently there's been added to it Proverbs 20.24, "All our steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can we understand our own ways?"<br /><br />The Dillard quote is very dense. She has packed it so tightly that it's almost impossible to paraphrase, even to oneself. It just is what it is, and needs lots of re-reading, as you say.<br /><br />Thank you, as always, Thomas, for your thoughtful comments on this and the previous post. Very encouraging. And I love your friend's greeting to his Lord in the morning - that's a classic. Thank you!Mike Farleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732248182662167951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15398304.post-60967441449720075602019-12-04T02:17:05.871+00:002019-12-04T02:17:05.871+00:00Carretto's words, as always, are potent and qu...Carretto's words, as always, are potent and quietly powerful. He has this irenic unforgettability to his writing! When he writes, simplify, de-intellectualise, come before Jesus as a poor soul, with no big ideas, I think of Psalm 131, which I was struggling to remember tonight: "I do not exercise myself in great matters, or in things that are too high for me. But I have quieted my soul, as a child at his mother's breast." <br /><br />I must re-read Dillard's words. I've absorbed them imperfectly. But she seems to be saying something vital, something alive.<br /><br />I have a dear friend who tells me he begins every day (before stepping out of bed) with the prayer, "Here I am, God!"<br /><br />And here we are! Thank you as always for your posts. They sustain and nourish and edify and delight.Thomas Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13217297262702709978noreply@blogger.com