fluttering
Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
~ Emily Brontë
lighthouse
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here.
This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…
Come further up, come further in!”
~ C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
the rock
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock
that is higher than I.
~ Psalm 61:2
fig feast
Happy Thanksgiving Canada!
I’m thankful for bounty – in all areas of life.
And to celebrate I’m indulging in a fig feast this morning. Yum!
forest light
From within or from behind,
a light shines through us upon things,
and makes us aware that we are nothing,
but the light is all.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
bejewelled
…. a door to the treasure room opened to me.
I was dazzled with the array of riches, the sparkling glittering strands of frozen pearls
and dew draped webs like bejewelled scarves
with which Earth had covered her head in an act of worship.
~ Joyce Sequichie Hifler “When the Night Bird Sings”
ripe apple
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple,
but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
~ Robert H. Schuller
abstract cedars
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~ John Keats
calla lily 2
When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb
hummingbird
Not all of us can do great things.
But we can do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa
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