Crystal Sparks

The saint has sometimes been called a sceptic. The truth is that he was very largely tolerated as a sceptic because he was obviously a saint.
GK Chesterton

If you get the opportunity to do a trip with just you and your daughter, it is very important that you don’t miss the opportunity!

4 years of doing a Christmas trip together and each year becomes my new favorite 🥹 I have learned every memory with her is the best!

Nothing gold can stay-
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost

August will slip away, it always does with the same feeling that you get in the cab home from a night you waited for forever.
August will come and go faster every time and I will never know why it feels like a sunset.
I don’t know why it feels like something is beginning and something is almost over at the same time.
Missing the person I was the last time August rolled around, because I have never been the same me in two Augusts.
- Josie Balka

Jesus wears the appearance of a slain Lamb as his court dress in which He wooed our souls, and redeemed them by His complete atonement. Nor are these only the ornaments of Christ: they are the trophies of His love and of His victory. He has divided the spoil with the strong. He has redeemed for Himself a great multitude whom no man can number, and these scars are the memorials of the fight. Ah! if Christ thus loves to retain the thought of His sufferings for His people, how precious should His wounds be to us!

“Behold how every wound of his
A precious balm distils,
Which heals the scars that sin had made, and cures all mortal ills.

Those wounds are mouths that preach his grace;
The ensigns of his love;
The seals of our expected bliss
In paradise above.”

Charles Spurgeon