"The Bible never belittles human disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary. What we feel now we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, an aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness-for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.
-- Philip Yancey

Reflections of July 12

Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down n that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.

-- Rumi