TO A CHILD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow ...
Would we be like the Pharisees questioning Christ Would we know the Master would we recognize him would we heed ...
Redeemed in the garden standing with Jesus on Easter morn' walking in the light Mary waiting questioning the gardener turning ...
Reaching the strangers those around us all the people of the earth out in the world In our presence and ...
Measuring my life the walk of my faith a plumb line vertical while I stray right or left questioning and ...
In his walk his journey on that road facing Christ risen, from his throne Questioning him why he hated him ...
We may not carry scars from beatings from proclaiming the good news of Christ Unlike Paul many journey onward only ...
Even when we are distant questioning the nature of our creator unable to fathom the world the suffering of this ...
His grace alone sufficient our only hope in him otherwise the struggles more than we can handle walking here on ...
Hopefully not going as far as he did in the later chapters not pushing the creator so that He would ...
If we slow our reading and treasure all the words learning from a righteous man who stumbled before God Taking ...
Unlike those questioning unable to believe needing to be told again he was the Christ Ears open, eyes to see ...
Where were the hosannahs that rang out five days before there before Pilate the crowd calling for his blood Christ, ...
The righteous, the leaders in the things that he said their power crumbling as the people came to believe Arousing ...
In the chapters growing wondering when it would happen when his comeuppance his response would come Over and over questioning ...
In the throne room of God the murmur rising the heavenly host wanting to know who is this man? brazen, ...
In the moment, when he forgot the reverence of God the awe we should know when he challenged when he ...
Christ joins us in our questioning just as he joined Cleopas and the other on the dusty Emmaus Road He ...
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
Words not rituals casual, heart-felt words telling the real story of the greatest sacrifice in all of human history finding ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? It was. The city was vanishing before noon or was it earlier ...
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