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I made presents for my gradumacating friends today. The ones at LFC, that is, not all you peeps from PHS. Sorry. No presents for you! Not until I get to see you, at least. I figure bribes might work to get some visits up here in Lake Forest this summer.
Anyway, I made presents. I now feel particularly accomplished, because I think the things I made look super-cool. I may have to go get some more of the materials I used and make some more gifts. It's nice to have gifts you know people will value when you made them with a very small budget. That way I can actually afford to give things, because I hate it when I can't give people presents because I have no money.
First, I got a book that I really wanted to give one friend at the church-diagonally-across-the-street-from-North-Campus rummage sale. And I thought, "oh, good, a perfect present for Robin!" (I really hope she doesn't read this before I give it to her tomorrow after the ceremony.) And then I was at the bookstore in the mall (I adore bookstores, but you knew that!) and I saw one of those nice journals they sell at every chain bookstore in existence on sale. And they had lots of colors and sizes and such. So I bought one with a plain cover and took it home and decorated it with colored paper and my silver pen and such things. And it looked awesome! So I decided that I should make some more stuff with my billions of pieces of patterned scrapbook paper for my other graduating friends. :) So I did.
And I wanted to write something meaningful on the stuff, so I was looking in a few of my all-time favorite books for quotes. And I found two about God and life and eternity and such in Madeleine L'Engle's "A Ring of Endless Light", which you should read if you haven't yet. It's gorgeous. And I like these quotes so much that I'm posting them here for your edification and reading pleasure:
If thou couldst empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf,
And say, “This is not dead,”
And fill thee with Himself instead.
But thou art replete with very thou
And hast such shrewd activity,
That when He comes He says, “This is enow
Unto itself - ‘twere better let it be,
It is so small and full, there is no room for me.”
Sir Thomas Browne
”I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright,
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres,
Like a vast shadow moved, in which the worlds
And all her train were hurled.”
Henry Vaughan
and one I didn't use but really like anyway:
“There is a God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness: as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that Night, where I in him
Might live invisible and dim!”
Henry Vaughan
Don't be surprised if I give more presents with those quotes on them in the future. Or other quotes. I'm not particularly good at sounding really intelligent or thought-provoking myself, (Or actually writing something like that myself, like Moriah does) but I love finding quotes and sharing them with other people. :)
Anyway, I made presents. I now feel particularly accomplished, because I think the things I made look super-cool. I may have to go get some more of the materials I used and make some more gifts. It's nice to have gifts you know people will value when you made them with a very small budget. That way I can actually afford to give things, because I hate it when I can't give people presents because I have no money.
First, I got a book that I really wanted to give one friend at the church-diagonally-across-the-street-from-North-Campus rummage sale. And I thought, "oh, good, a perfect present for Robin!" (I really hope she doesn't read this before I give it to her tomorrow after the ceremony.) And then I was at the bookstore in the mall (I adore bookstores, but you knew that!) and I saw one of those nice journals they sell at every chain bookstore in existence on sale. And they had lots of colors and sizes and such. So I bought one with a plain cover and took it home and decorated it with colored paper and my silver pen and such things. And it looked awesome! So I decided that I should make some more stuff with my billions of pieces of patterned scrapbook paper for my other graduating friends. :) So I did.
And I wanted to write something meaningful on the stuff, so I was looking in a few of my all-time favorite books for quotes. And I found two about God and life and eternity and such in Madeleine L'Engle's "A Ring of Endless Light", which you should read if you haven't yet. It's gorgeous. And I like these quotes so much that I'm posting them here for your edification and reading pleasure:
If thou couldst empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf,
And say, “This is not dead,”
And fill thee with Himself instead.
But thou art replete with very thou
And hast such shrewd activity,
That when He comes He says, “This is enow
Unto itself - ‘twere better let it be,
It is so small and full, there is no room for me.”
Sir Thomas Browne
”I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright,
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres,
Like a vast shadow moved, in which the worlds
And all her train were hurled.”
Henry Vaughan
and one I didn't use but really like anyway:
“There is a God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness: as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that Night, where I in him
Might live invisible and dim!”
Henry Vaughan
Don't be surprised if I give more presents with those quotes on them in the future. Or other quotes. I'm not particularly good at sounding really intelligent or thought-provoking myself, (Or actually writing something like that myself, like Moriah does) but I love finding quotes and sharing them with other people. :)