Reflective Beauty: Hullo from a Hobbit

Friday, September 04, 2009

Hullo from a Hobbit

Hush! The Black Riders might have followed me here, and could be outside!

Whew! They're gone now. Who am I? I come in peace, friend. Do I smell coffee in this fine dwelling?

The ceiling might not be rounded, but you can't fool me. It's a hobbit hole in disguise. And I do smell coffee!

What's this about writing? Coffee is only for writers, is it? Well, I suppose I can help you. Uncle Bilbo taught me my letters. Would you like that in Elvish or Common Tongue?

Aha! Thank you for the delicious home brew! And it comes in pints!! I think I'll live here, if you don't mind. I'll call it Whit's End, after the young Whit fellow who dwells here. Like Bag End, named after the Bagginses. I don't know what Adventures in Odyssey is, either, so stop giving me silly looks. Whit's End is a perfectly fine name for your - our - house.

Goodbye for now!

~Elanor Baggins ~

(note from Rael: This hobbit lass came to visit a few years ago and decided to stay. She'll go on adventures now and then, and suddenly shows up when least expected. Quite a character, and she threatens to clean out our refrigerator when she's here! Looks remarkably like me, she does, though she's much more hairy on the feet...)

6 comments:

Mrs. E12:01 AM
This was a delightful post....
Are you sure you don't know what
"Adventures and Odyssey" is?!
*giggles*

Love~ Jen
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Rael12:41 AM
Elanor: Rael says it's a radio drama, but I have not heard it. Are there dragons in it?

Rael: Miss Jen, my youngest brother, Robert Whitefield, is now mostly called Bob, but we grew up calling him Whit. So "Whit's End" has about two and a half puns in it, one too many in my opinion to be quite sensible. But apparently Elanor disagrees. ;-) She fairly stubborn in her silly notions sometimes.
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Nonexistant anymore6:17 AM
Haha, that was amusing. :)
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Nonexistant anymore6:21 AM
Would you mind telling me what your NaNo username is?
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Anonymous6:53 AM
OH MY GOODNESS, that was SO CUTE!!!
You have a tankard!! :)
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Rael9:09 AM
Merriette, I'm hobbitgirl over on NaNo. I don't actually post on the forums, though. I can predict if I really got into that it would suck up waay too much of my time, which I'd rather use writing. ;-) But I love using the work counters and charts and things on the site. :-)

Glad you enjoyed meeting Elanor, Earwen! :-)
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To the One I want to reflect...

You are the sun
shining down on everyone,
light of the world
giving light to everything I see
beauty so brilliant
I can hardly take it in
and everywhere You are
is warmth and light

And I am the moon
with no light of my own
still You have made me
to shine
and as I glow
in this cold dark night
I know I can't be a light
unless I turn my face to You

Shine on me with Your light
Without You I'm a cold dark stone
Shine on me
I have no light of my own
You are the sun,
You are the sun,
You are the sun
And I am the moon

~Sara Groves~

Quotes on Happiness

We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
~C. S. Lewis~

God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy.
~Jeremy Taylor~

God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking His own praise is the ultimately loving act. For Him, self-exaltation is the highest virtue. When He does all things "for the praise of His glory," He preserves for us and offers to us the only thing in all the world that can satisfy our longings. God is for us! And the foundation of this love is that God has been, is now, and always will be for Himself.
~John Piper~

"At the end of things, The Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly."
~ C.S. Lewis ~

"Who is my neighbor?"

"I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us."
~ C. S. Lewis ~

Beauty vs. Attractiveness

Christians reading these reports must remember that beauty and attractiveness are not the same thing. Beauty, according to the Christian worldview, is established by God himself, and is inseparable from truth and goodness. Attractiveness is the mere delight of the eyes. In a sinful world, our eyes delight in many wrong things, and many of the most beautiful realities are, to the mere eyes, unattractive.

After all, we follow our Savior who “had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.” [Isaiah 53:2]. The cross is not pretty, but it is beautiful. This is the ironic foundation of a Christian understanding of beauty. We cannot merely trust our eyes, for our eyes will lie to us, and we are to find beauty in truth.

Albert Mohler