Home and Heaven: A Quiet Place

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A Quiet Place

4 comments:

Fred & Leon said...: Lovely... Beautiful.... Cozy.... I love it.

~Emily :); February 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Kristina said...: I'll be there this weekend, if that's alright? :) Missing you so very much.

Love you,
T; February 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Deanna Rabe - Creekside Cottage Blog said...: Love the light coming in that room! Beautiful!; February 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Emmachka said...: Also known as a "cozy place you like to go sometimes when you like to want to go there." :) Love you so much.; February 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM

Thus Would I Live

I would crave wealth, not riches as I live:
The wealth of learning with a quiet heart.
An open mind with leisure time to give
To poetry, to music, and to art;
The time for children's laughter, time to learn
The wisdom of the sages of the past;
The time to watch the stars--a candle burn
In sacrificial fire to the last.
...
I would speak gently though the din be loud,
I would move softly without hurried haste,
I would be inconspicuous in a crowd,
I would conserve the energies we waste;
I would see beauty in each common task,
Each bird, each tree, the clouds that light shines through.
This is my heart's desire--the thing I ask:
To daily grow as God would have me do.
...
~Grace Noll Crowell