Reflective Beauty: Little Pretties

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Little Pretties

I thought I'd pop in at my blog for a few minutes. Greetings from my desk on a beautiful Saturday afternoon! Doesn't this cup of garden flora look delicious? It smells like a whole field of wildflowers and honey. Mmm....

And don't candles make you feel studious and excited? I love how they brighten up any little corner. They're almost like cats on the hearth, a dog at your feet, or the perfect background music. Why in the world does a little fire enchant us so?

Here's Little Dorrit the Desk, and the lower edge of a hat quilt that was handmade by my great grandmother.

Alright, as you can see, my desk is so pretty and cozy that I must get back to work at it. Goodbye for now!

6 comments:

Rael6:52 PM
Thank you, Eliza! I am very thankful for my little desk, and enjoy it very much. Of course (as you know) the main thing is to write wherever you can.

Yep, you spotted it! ;-)
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Creg Istre Family9:52 PM
I just love your little snippits of "life with Rael." They're fun to read. ;)
Chelsa
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Mrs. E1:43 AM
Awww.... lovely!
Got to love the little dorrit desk!
Too SWEET!!!!

Love~ Jen
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Rael2:31 PM
Thanks for the comment, Jenny!

Chelsa, I thought you liked these. :-) If you had a blog, that's the sort of thing I'd want to see, too. We really do need to come see y'all! I would love that. I miss you and your lovely family. I hope you are all doing well. Oh, please tell Sierra she should do NaNoWriMo with me this year if she has time and wants to. She would have fun! I would read her story, and I don't care if it's silly because of course mine will be too. ;-)
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kelli5:57 PM
Hi, Rael...

I saw your comments on the Rabbit Room and followed them here. What a lovely little hobbit hole...umm...blog you have:)

I'm a homeschooling mama of 2 little girls, and your passion for God, home, good literature and life has me beaming!

I've spent a bit of time perusing your blog, and I think you are most definitely a kindred spirit. George MacDonald, Andrew Peterson, C.S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Celtic music, Anne Shirley, Narnia, Frodo, John Piper, soundtracks...you and I have many of the same "friends."

Also...my older daughter (age 8) was reading your blog with me and was very inspired. She asked if we could look at it again later. Thanks for that:)

I wish we could sit down for some elevensies or perhaps just tea and chat. I would love to hear your thoughts on homeschooling and the such!

So glad I found your blog...it's been a little gift in my day today:)

...kelli
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Everly Pleasant8:31 PM
You named your desk? We must be friends! ;)
(mine is Alcott.)
Everly
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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