Dragonflies and Kingfishers: For all kinds of weaknesses

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

BethanyFebruary 15, 2011 at 8:33 PM
I read this yesterday. What an awesome (in the true sense of the word) reminder.
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Hannah TuckerFebruary 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM
Oh, my. This ought to be one of the most-quoted encouragement scriptures, one that we're ready to quip out on short notice to build someone up. I have a running tally hidden in my head of all the passages I want all over my house when I grow up and get married... this one definitely goes on there!
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inspiration

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;

Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -

Christ - for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the father through the features of men's faces.