#Frederick W. Faber

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Sunshine to the Heart

by Aiden Wilson Tozer

Where there is knowledge, it will pass away - 1 Corinthians 13:8

That God can be known by the soul in tender personal experience while remaining infinitely aloof from the curious eyes of reason constitutes a paradox best described as

"Darkness to the intellect But sunshine to the heart." - Frederick W. Faber

The author of the celebrated little work The Cloud of Unknowing develops this thesis throughout his book. In approaching God, he says, the seeker discovers that the divine Being dwells in obscurity, hidden behind a cloud of unknowing; nevertheless, he should not be discouraged but set his will with a naked intent unto God. This cloud is between the seeker and God so that he may never see God clearly by the light of understanding nor feel Him in the emotions. But by the mercy of God faith can break through into His Presence if the seeker but believe the Word and press on.

#Aiden Wilson Tozer #1 Corinthians 13:8 #Sunshine to the Heart #Tozer in the Evening #devotional #January 5 #2023 #Frederick W. Faber

[sabedo-ria]

"Devemos esperar por Deus com paciência e mansidão, no vento e na chuva, no trovão e no relâmpago, no frio e na escuridão. Espere, e Ele virá. Ele jamais vem aos que não o esperam."

— Frederick W. Faber

[anastpaul]

Our Morning Offering – 13 December – O Purest of Creatures, Sweet Mother, Sweet Maid

Our Morning Offering – 13 December – “The Month of the Divine Infancy and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary” O Purest of Creatures,Sweet Mother, Sweet MaidBy Fr Frederick W Faber C.Orat. (1814-1863) O Purest of creatures, sweet Mother, sweet maid,The one spotless womb wherein Jesus was laid!Dark night hath come down on us, Mother! and weLook out for thy shining, sweet Star of…

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[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Please consider writing down the words: "Thank You" and then drop that paper or card off to your local firefighters and police officers & staff or drop the note into the mail. I know from experience that it doesn't need to be fancy.

Proverbs 16:24 Kind words are like honey sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” Blaise Pascal

“With the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed, it is not speedily lost.” Frederick W. Faber

“Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” Dale Carnegie”

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” Albert Schweitze

Good Samaritan

🚨I personally don't think our hearts and minds were created to absorb daily bad news and violence. I'm posting the bodycam video for our international friends who often hear terrible things about USA first responders. Our first responders have been demonized and thus demoralized because of a few rotten apples. They deserve our prayers & appreciation.

Good Samaritan

100 Year Old Community Member

#nashville #covenant presbyterian church #Christians #first responders #police officers #firefighters #good samaritans #covenant school

[cassianus]

"The nine months draw to a close, and our Lord's last act is to journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It is toward us, as well as toward Bethlehem, that He is journeying. He is about to leave His home a second time for the love of us. As He had left His uncreated home in the Bosom of the Father, so is He now going to leave His created home that He may come to us and be still more ours. He will show us in this last action that He is not obedient merely to His holy and chosen Mother, but that He has come to be the servant of our commands and to wait upon our forwardness..."

Rev. Frederick W. Faber, C.O.

[chrisshields18]

Faith of our fathers, living still

In spite of dungeon, fire and sword,

O how our hearts beat high with joy

Where’re we hear that glorious word!

Faith of our fathers, holy faith,

We will be true to thee till death.

Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,

We’re still in heart and conscience free,

And blest would be their children’s fate,

though they, like them, should die for thee.

Faith of our fathers, holy faith, we will be true to thee till death.

Faith of our fathers, faith and prayer,

Shall keep our country brave and free,

And through the truth that comes from God,

Our land shall then indeed be free, and through the truth that comes from God, our land shall then indeed be free.

Faith of our fathers, holy faith, we will be true to thee till death.

Faith of our fathers, we will love

Both friend and for in all our strife,

And preach thee, too, as love knows how

By kindly words and virtuous life.

Faith of our fathers, holy faith,

we will be true to thee till death.

Faith of Fathers, Living Still

by:

Frederick W. Faber

[draftingboard]

Please consider writing down the words: "Thank You" and then drop that paper or card off to your local firefighters and police officers & staff or drop the note into the mail. I know from experience that it doesn't need to be fancy.

Proverbs 16:24 Kind words are like honey sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.

Good Samaritan

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” Blaise Pascal

“With the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed, it is not speedily lost.” Frederick W. Faber

“Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” Dale Carnegie”

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” Albert Schweitze

🚨Sensitive Content:

I personally don't think our hearts and minds were created to absorb daily bad news and violence. I'm posting the bodycam video for our international friends who often hear terrible things about USA first responders. Our first responders have been demonized and thus demoralized because of a few rotten apples. They deserve our prayers & appreciation.

Good Samaritan

#nashville #covenant presbyterian church #christians #first responders #police officers #firefighters #Youtube #Good Samaritans

[forhim-aname]

O Jesus, Jesus! dearest Lord! Forgive me if I say For very love, Thy sacred name A thousand times a day.

Refrain:

O Jesus, Lord, with me abide; I rest in Thee, whate’er betide; Thy gracious smile is my reward; I love, I love Thee, Lord!

I love Thee so I know not how My transports to control; Thy love is like a burning fire Within my very soul.

O wonderful! that Thou shouldst let So vile a heart as mine Love Thee with such a love as this, And make so free with thine.

The craft of this wise world of ours Poor wisdom seems to me; Ah! dearest Jesus! I have grown Childish with love of Thee!

For Thou to me art all in all, My honor and my wealth, My heart’s desire, my body’s strength, My soul’s eternal health.

Burn, burn, O love! within my heart, Burn fiercely night and day, Till all the dross of earthly loves Is burned, and burned away.

O light in darkness, joy in grief, O Heav’n begun on earth; Jesus! My love! My treasure! who Can tell what Thou art worth?

O Jesus! Jesus! sweetest Lord! What art Thou not to me? Each hour brings joys before unknown, Each day new liberty!

What limit is there to thee, love? Thy flight, where wilt Thou stay? On! on! our Lord is sweeter far Today than yesterday.

Frederick W. Faber

[craigtowens]

God loves to be longed for, He loves to be sought,   For He sought us Himself with such a longing and love; He died for desire of us, marvelous thought!   And He longs for us now to be with Him above.

Frederick W. Faber

#Frederick W. Faber #poem #poetry #God's love #God's presence

[nellygwyn]

BOOK RECS

Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit. 

Favourite fiction books of all time:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar

Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen

Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue 

Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier

Life Mask // Emma Donoghue

His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)

Emma // Jane Austen

The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton

Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo 

Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion // Jane Austen

Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier

The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell

Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen

The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen

Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian

The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles 

The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis 

Mansfield Park // Jane Austen

The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness

The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit

Favourite non-fiction books of all time

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser

Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison 

Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley 

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

King Charles II // Antonia Fraser

Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers

Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert

Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work

The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala 

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman

Courtesans // Katie Hickman

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England

Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank 

A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister

Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz

Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White

Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone

Celeste // Roland Perry

Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach

The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman

LGBT+ fiction I love*

The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg 

As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann

Bone China // Laura Purcell

Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

Orlando // Virginia Woolf

Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters

She Rises // Kate Worsley

The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson

Maurice // E.M Forster

Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson

If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo 

The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall 

* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction

Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)

Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy 

I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith 

Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray 

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie 

Great Expectations // Charles Dickens

North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell

Evelina // Frances Burney

Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

Vilette // Charlotte Brontë

The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë

Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh

Beloved // Toni Morrison 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding

A Room With a View // E.M. Forster

Silas Marner // George Eliot 

Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy

My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Middlemarch // George Eliot

Little Women // Louisa May Alcott

Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou 

Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier

Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy

Howard’s End // E.M. Forster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend

Even more fiction recommendations

The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell

The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel

The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst

Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams

Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

The Corset // Laura Purcell

Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola

Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre

Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter

The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse

Longbourn // Jo Baker

A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge

The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer

The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye

The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain 

The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak

Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer

Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier

Little // Edward Carey

Chocolat // Joanne Harris 

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley 

My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer

Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson

Restoration // Rose Tremain

Meat Market // Juno Dawson

Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes

In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant

The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber

A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel 

The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston

The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild

The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens

Dark Angels // Karleen Koen

The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd

Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness

The Collector // John Fowles

Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick

The Foundling // Stacey Halls

The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton

Golden Hill // Francis Spufford

Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher

All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson

Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover

Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard

Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley 

Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman 

To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer

1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden

Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard 

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock

Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne

The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham 

Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd

The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce

The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser

Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer

Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset 

Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman 

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd 

Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran

African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele 

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay

How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup 

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell 

A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb

The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch

Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell

The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman 

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson

Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns

Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps

Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester

Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch 

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri

Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde 

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi

Trans Power // Juno Roche

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen

Diaries, memoirs & letters

The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel 

Writing Home // Alan Bennett

The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys

Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater

London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell

The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell 

Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye

H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald 

The Salt Path // Raynor Winn

The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney

Educated // Tara Westover

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson

A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler

800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon

Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk

Henry and June // Anaïs Nin

Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)

The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite

That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole

Unveiled // Courtney Milan

The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman

The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt

An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole

Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen

A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles

#the only categories not on here are plays and poetry #just bc this post would be even longer! #you can ask me for my favourite playwrights/poets separately tho

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Was there ever kindest shepherd Half so gentle, half so sweet, As the Saviour who would have us Come and gather round His feet? It is God; His love looks mighty, But is mightier than it seems: 'Tis our Father, and His kindness Goes out far beyond our dreams... (continue at Truth for Life)

#blog #Truth for Life Ministries #hymn #lyrics #Was There Ever Kindest Shepherd #Frederick W. Faber #blog.truthforlife.org

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

Many a friendship, long, loyal and self-sacrificing, rests on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick W. Faber

[anastpaul]

Our Morning Offering – 2 November – O Turn To Jesus, Mother! Turn

Our Morning Offering – 2 November – “The Month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory” O Turn To Jesus, Mother! TurnTo Our Blessed Lady for the Souls in Purgatory (1940)By Fr Frederick W Faber C.Orat (1814-1863) O turn to Jesus, Mother! turn,And call Him by His tenderest Names;Pray for the Holy Souls that burnThis hour amid the cleansing flames. Ah! they have fought a gallant fight;In death’s cold…

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[sealedhymnal]

Original Hymn Tune – Oh How the Thought of God Attracts

Another in our ongoing series performing my original hymn tunes. I wrote this tune POMYSEL for a text by Frederick W. Faber, a prolific Catholic hymnist and poet from the 1800s. I was drawn in particular to the line 'go where grace entices thee' which made it worth it to me to set all the rest. 'Time and obedience are enough and thou a saint shall be' is another standout. 

 A huge thanks to all the friends who helped us throw this recording (and several others) together over a Sunday afternoon dinner get-together. With over 17 kids playing in the house, minimal rehearsal and recording takes, we somehow managed to record two voices to a part with only a few cries from young children. Very talented and kind people all around. It was very neat to hear my hymns brought to life by those voices. 

 For all of my hymn tunes I use a word or phrase transliterated from Russian, the language in which I learned to speak of sacred things on my LDS mission. In this case POMYSEL is a transliteration of the word "Thought" 

Link to the sheet music and text here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5712aba4a3360cab66768c81/t/5e40ee0efbfe4d4e87be23a2/1581313550534/OH%2C+HOW+THE+THOUGHT+OF+GOD+ATTRACTS.pdf 

For music and sheet music for all my 150+ hymns, see here: https://www.rmichaelwahlquist.com/hymns

#hymn #sacred music #modern hymn #christian music #prayer #righteous living #tumbrstake #choir #a capella

[cassianus]

"The nine months draw to a close, and our Lord's last act is to journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It is toward us, as well as toward Bethlehem, that He is journeying. He is about to leave His home a second time for the love of us. As He had left His uncreated home in the Bosom of the Father, so is He now going to leave His created home that He may come to us and be still more ours. He will show us in this last action that He is not obedient merely to His holy and chosen Mother, but that He has come to be the servant of our commands and to wait upon our forwardness..."

Rev. Frederick W. Faber, C.O.

[wonderlandentertainmentllc]

Uncertainty & Faith

I’ve waited a bit before I wrote a new blog. I supposed that for most people, things seems weird, off balance, but most of all, we all feel uncertainty. 

I’ve actually been sick, tbh. I had the flu and then bronchitis. Stuff like that happens when you have a compromised immune system like I do. And then the entire World as we know it got shook to the core. Yes, I’m talking about Covid-19. Yes, I’m talking about the Chinese Government. And ya know, I’m not even going to take the ‘political’ route on this. I have my opinions and speculations, but I want to take a look at the ‘spiritual’ side of this whole pandemic we find ourselves in.

I know many people are asking, why? Why did God let this happen? If you want my opinion, it’s our wake-up call. This is our “Come to Jesus” meeting with God.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. ~ Teresa of Avila

Are you a Christian? I know I am. My Faith is pretty darn strong. There is a difference between being lonely and being in solitude. The fear of being alone petrifies a lot of people. I’ve seen people, more men than women, go from one relationship straight into another because of the fear of being alone, because of their loneliness.

Several years ago, I spent almost a year in counseling. I learned during that process that I must love myself and love being alone before I can even love someone correctly or have them love me. There is so much truth to that! I see someone of you shaking your heads claiming that I’m wrong. (LOL) Trust me, I’m right on this.

Our fear of being alone drives us to noise and crowds. We keep up a constant stream of words even if they’re inane. T.S. Eliot analyzed our culture well when he wrote, “Where shall the world be found, where will the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.” 

Have you ever noticed the “celebrities” of our culture? 8 out of 10 of those people are lonely people. Why do I say that? They’re celebrities because they want to be noticed! They want to be heard. They want to matter. But, here’s where they screw up, imo... They want that attention because their human side, their flesh needs the applause, the i love yous, the desire to feel the emptiness they really feel inside. Most of the Hollywood crowd are lonely people because they have an inner emptiness because it’s not filled with the Spirit of God.

Take this whole Covid-19, China Virus, whatever you want to call it. How are we trying to get rid of it? QUARANTINING OURSELVES! Why are we doing that? The obvious answer is because it’s the best way to eradicate the disease. Social distancing is actually a good thing! Did you hear me? Social distancing is a good thing!! Now is the time to learn the difference between loneliness and solitude. 

Solitude is more of a state of mind and heart than it is a place. There is a solitude of the heart that can be maintained at all times. Crowds have little to do with this inward attentiveness. I’m currently reading Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster for my Discipleship Class. Over two million copies of this book have been sold and it’s been around since the 1970′s. 

Even though what Foster writes about, he was writing about today’s society more than the one of the 70′s. We are worse now than how it was back then. I was born in the late 70′s, so I’m an 80′s kid. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, research and listening to moderate journalism in the past month and a half (my sick time). It truly astounds me how ignorant we are to the situation we are currently in.

Take this time of social distancing to get back to your roots, grow closer to God, meditate, figure out what your solitude is. When is the last time you meditated? Thomas Merton wrote, “Meditation has no point and no reality unless it is firmly rooted in life.” Yeah, I get that life is hard right now. We as a collective are confused, hurt, sick, and uncertain. 

When we take the time to discern and desire the Living Voice of God, I think the more clarity we will receive about what we and our World are going through. 

Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is!

To think the thought, the breathe the Name

Earth has no higher bliss.

~Frederick W. Faber

We must take this time to get back to God, strengthen the roots of our families, to find the real meaning of LOVE!

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all. ~Martin Luther

So, today, I’m asking you, will you take the time to submit your life to Our Lord, if you haven’t already? Do you need to resubmit your life to God? Do you need to reconnect with your family or loved ones? There is a silver lining to this pandemic we find ourselves in.

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