George MacDonald

Episode 790

In this episode, we’re concluding our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading November stanza 1 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Thou art of this world, Christ. Thou know’st it all;
Thou know’st our evens, our morns, our red and gray;
How moons, and hearts, and seasons rise and fall;
How we grow weary plodding on the way;
Of future joy how present pain bereaves,
Rounding us with a dark of mere decay,
Tossed with a drift of summer-fallen leaves.

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Episode 789

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading October stanza 27 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Take from me leisure, all familiar places;
Take all the lovely things of earth and air
Take from me books; take all my precious faces;
Take words melodious, and their songful linking;
Take scents, and sounds, and all thy outsides fair;
Draw nearer, taking, and, to my sober thinking,
Thou bring’st them nearer all, and ready to my prayer.

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Episode 788

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading April stanza 13 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Make me all patience and all diligence;
Patience, that thou mayst have thy time with me;
Diligence, that I waste not thy expense
In sending out to bring me home to thee.
What though thy work in me transcends my sense–
Too fine, too high, for me to understand–
I hope entirely. On, Lord, with thy labour grand.

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Episode 787

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading February stanza 29 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Gather my broken fragments to a whole,
As these four quarters make a shining day.
Into thy basket, for my golden bowl,
Take up the things that I have cast away
In vice or indolence or unwise play.
Let mine be a merry, all-receiving heart,
But make it a whole, with light in every part.

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Episode 786

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading January stanza 5 from “The Diary of an Old Soul.”

Thy fishes breathe but where thy waters roll;
Thy birds fly but within thy airy sea;
My soul breathes only in thy infinite soul;
I breathe, I think, I love, I live but thee.
Oh breathe, oh think,–O Love, live into me;
Unworthy is my life till all divine,
Till thou see in me only what is thine.

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Episode 785

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “O Lord How Happy.”

… I do not fear the wilderness
Where thou hast been before;
Nay rather will I daily press
After thee, near thee, more!
Thou art my food; on thee I lean,
Thou makest my heart sing;
And to thy heavenly pastures green
All thy dear flock dost bring. ….

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Episode 784

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “A Broken Prayer.”

… Make me a broad strong river coming down
With shouts from its high hills, whose rocky hearts
Throb forth the joy of their stability
In watery pulses from their inmost deeps;
And I shall be a vein upon thy world,
Circling perpetual from the parent deep. …

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Episode 783

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “Written on a Stormy Night.”

… Again the loud boughs thunder! and the din
Licks up my footfall from the hissing earth!
But I have found a mighty peace within,
And I have risen into a home of mirth!
Wildly I climb above the shaking spires,
Above the sobbing clouds, up through the steady fires!

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Episode 782

In this episode, we’re continuing our series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald. Today we’re reading a selection from “Love Is Strength.”

… Little ones, no ill can chance;
Fear ye not, but sing and dance;
Though the high-heaved heaven should fall
God is plenty for us all:
God is Love and Strength!

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Episode 781

In this episode, we’re beginning a new series using selections from the poetry of George MacDonald, a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Today we’re reading “A Baby-Sermon.”

The lightning and thunder
They go and they come:
But the stars and the stillness
Are always at home.

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