SOUL REST

May the beauty of fall 

when leaves let go remind us that

e're since the fall of man,

man can fall back in the arms of God.

"Whom have I in heaven but You?

And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

My flesh and my heart may fail,

But God is the strength of my heart 

and my portion forever."

Psalm 73:25-26

"The greatest thing to remember is that,

though our feelings come and go,

His love for us does not.  

It is not wearied by our sins

or indifferences; 

and therefore, it is quite relentless

in its determination that we shall be cured

 of those sins at whatever cost to us,

and whatever cost to Him."

C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

"All things belong to every man who yields his selfishness...

A man's one claim on manhood is that he can call upon God--

the God out of whose heart he came and in whose heart he is.

This is his higher power--that which constitutes his original

likeness to God."

George MacDonald, "The Baron's Apprentice"

Wesley's "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection continued...

WINGS OF THE SOUL

"3.  In the year 1726 I met with Kempis 'Christian Pattern.'  The nature and extent of inward religion, the religion of the heart, now appeared to me in a stronger light than ever it had done before.  I saw that giving even all my life to God--supposing it possible to do this and go no farther--would profit me nothing, unless I gave my heart , yea, all my heart to him."

I saw that 'simplicity of intention, and purity of affection,' one design in all we speak or do, and one desire ruling all our tempers, are indeed 'the wings of the soul,' without which she can never ascend to the mount of God."