Pursue the Beauty!

reflections on the intermix of beauty, grace, and suffering

Beauty of peace

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Drop thy still dews of quietness
Till all our strivings cease
Take from our souls the strain and stress
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace

 

6 Comments»

  Carrots wrote @

Thank you Natalie, I copied that poem down a year or so ago and the rest of it jumped into my mind as I read this. Peace…I am rather without it today and I needed the reminder to ask for it. It isn’t one of those things that just happens, it is one of the qualities that I have to fight for by taking my thoughts captive and yet by relying on Christ to give it to me at the same time.

And as a former ballet dancer and teacher, I like the picture quite a bit too. :)

Samantha

  Maureen E wrote @

What a beautiful quote! It reminds me just a little bit of the sonnet Harriet Vane and Peter write in Gaudy Night.

“Here then at home, by no more storms distrest,
Folding laborious hands we sit, wings furled;
Here in close perfume lies the rose-leaf curled,
Here the sun stands and knows not east nor west,
Here no tide runs; we have come, last and best,
From the wide zone in dizzying circles hurled
To that still center where the spinning world
Sleeps on its axis, to the heart of rest.”

(that’s just Harriet’s bit–I left the sextet Peter writes out)

  Natalie (Nyquist) Ference wrote @

ooh, that is lovely, Maureen. Thanks for sharing. I like the perfume rose-leaf bit especially. :)

  ladyjeanne wrote @

One night, about four years ago, I remember going outside with a notebook, and looking up at the sky, which was lightly misting rain down on me. It was a confusing, hard time, full of strain, stress, and striving– and I wrote down these exact words. The year that followed was probably the single hardest and most frightening year of my life– and I chronicled it in that notebook– but God walked through it with me. That darkness did lift, and left me knowing He was the only One I could depend upon– but He is more than sufficient.

Sorry to be longish, but your post brought that whole time so keenly to mind. You have been in my prayers, Natalie!

  Natalie (Nyquist) Ference wrote @

you’re not “long” at all! I enjoy hearing how others have found beauty in darkness. :hug:

  cheryl wrote @

to God be the glory…….


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