Friday, January 24, 2025

Inklings // January 2025

Happy January everyone! Hope you've been having a wonderful month. It's been super full here -- between Christmas and Epiphany festivities, garden planning, dental appointments, seasonal flu bug, book studies + playing catch up and going down some major research rabbit trails (long story, whew) -- anyway(!), yes, it's been a full month. 

But I didn't want to miss our first Inklings of the year, so here we are. ;) I'll leave entries open till mid-February, so feel free to jump in anytime in the next couple weeks. 💜

Rules:

1. At any time during the month, on your own blog post a scene from a book or film that matches the prompt, including a link back here in your post.

2. Make sure to come back and leave a link to your entry in the box on this post. That's it!

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January's prompt is:

A scene at sunrise

We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek this month and I just loved the following scene:

"In the mornings they ran through the dewy chill grass that wet their feet and dabbled the hems of their dresses. They liked to splash their bare feet through the grass all strung with dewdrops. They liked to watch the sun rise over the edge of the world.

First everything was grey and still. The sky was grey, the grass was grey with dew, the light was grey and the wind held its breath.

Then sharp streaks of green came into the eastern sky. If there was a little cloud, it turned pink. Laura and Mary sat on the damp, cold rock, hugging their chilly legs. They rested their chins on their knees and watched, and in the grass below them Jack sat, watching, too. But they never could see when the sky first began to be pink. 

The sky was very faintly pink, then it was pinker. The colour went higher up the sky. It grew brighter and deeper. It blazed like fire, and suddenly the little cloud was glittering gold. In the centre of the blazing color, on the flat edge of the earth, a tiny sliver of sun appeared. It was a short streak of white fire. Suddenly the whole sun bounded up, round and huge, far bigger than the ordinary sun and throbbing with so much light that its roundness almost burst.

Laura couldn't help blinking. While she blinked just once, the sky turned blue, the golden cloud vanished. The everyday sun shone over the prairie grasses where thousands of birds were flying and twittering."

You can pop your links below:

🌿 Can't wait to see what y'all come up with and have fun! 🌿

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Epiphany 2025

(Wrote this on the 6th/Epiphany, but didn't get it posted immediately. It fits for the entire season though.)

During Christmastide this year I read Elizabeth Goudge's 'I Saw Three Ships'. (Such a sweet little story, highly recommend!) The paragraph at the top of this page has really stuck with me and I wanted to share for Epiphany today.

Epiphany is when we remember the Wise Men bringing their gifts to Christ and the light -- the Gospel -- now going to the Gentiles. 💓 I've always heard how the gold points to Christ's kingship, the frankincense to His divinity, and the myrrh to His death. We should always, ALWAYS see how every passage points to Christ first and foremost (so that's good), but downstream from that I think Goudge's quote above is very intriguing and fits the context too. 

As we celebrate Epiphany today -- with joy and gladness for God's unimaginable goodness and kindness in sending His precious Son to save us poor lost sinners -- may we respond with utter humility, prostrate with trembling joy before Him -- laying all of our living, our prayers, and our death in His service. Not for what we think He should best do with them, but really and genuinely in His service, however that looks and whatever He pleases for us to do. ✝️

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Christmas 2024

🌲 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” Matthew 1:23 🌲

The Seed of the Woman (a seemingly impossible thing), coming to crush the Serpent's head...

Without Christ coming in the flesh there would be no death on the cross and no resurrection -- no atonement for our sin and no hope for the great restoration of all things. Christ came in the flesh (mind-boggling), forever absolutely glorifying His tangible, physical creation. An angel coming to save us wouldn't have worked. He came in weakness, in flesh and blood, to save us, the fallen sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. 

And -- looking forward to Easter -- what He came to do, He accomplished. 

And He has promised to never leave or forsake us -- to dwell with us forever. He is our Great High Priest, in perfectly glorified flesh. Our Great King. And our Good, kind, loving Shepherd. 💓

All cause for the very greatest and highest joy indeed !♥️💚🤍

🎄 Merry Christmas!! 🎄

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