Geraniums in the Window

Friday September 17

It is the simple things of life that make
living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental
things such as love and duty, work
and rest, and living close to nature.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

IF

Wednesday February 24
IF







If my attitude be one of fear,
not faith, about one who has
disappointed me;
if I say "Just what I expected,"
if a fall occurs,

then I know nothing of Calvary love.

written by Amy Carmichael

Wednesday February 17

If
I cannot catch"the sound of noise
of rain
long before the rain falls,
and, going to some hilltop of the spirit,
as near to my God as I can,
have not faith to wait there with
my face between my kness,
though six times or sixty times I
am told" there arises a little
cloud out the sea,"
then I know nothing of Calvary love.

taken from If by Amy Carmichael

What do I know of Calvary Love

Victorian Garden
What do I know of Calvary Love
Monday March 30

If I can easily discuss

the shortcomings and

the sins of any;

if I can speak in a casual

way even of a child's

misdoings,

then I know nothing

of Calvary Love

written by Amy Carmichal from the book IF

What do I know of Calvary Love

In The Orangery

Monday March 16

IF

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve,

talk of thier weak points

in contrast perhaps with what I

think of as my strong points;

if I adopt a superior attitude,

forgetting "who made thee to differ?

and what hast thou that thou hast

not recieved?"

than I know nothing of Calvary Love.

IF by Amy Carmichael

What do I know of Calvary Love

Black Brook

If

I have not compassion on my fellow servant,

even as my Lord had pity on me,

then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Taken from IF by Amy Carmichal

What Do I know of Calvary Love

There are times when something comes into our


lives which is charged with love in such a way that


it seems to open the Eternal to us for a moment, or


at leaset some of the Eternal things, and the greatest

of these is love.

It may be a small and intimate touch upon on us or

our affairs, light as the touch of the dawn wind on the

leaves of the tree, somethin not to be captured and

told to another in words. But we know that it is our

Lord. And then perhaps the room where we are with

its furniture and books and flowers, seems less "present"

than His Presence, and the heart is drawn into that

sweetness of which the old hymn sings



The love of Jesus, what is is

None but His loved ones know.



Or it is the dear human love about us that bathes

us as in summer seas and rests us through and

through. Can we ever cease to wonder at the love

of our companions? And then suddenly we

recognize our Lord in them. It is His love they

lavish upon us.

O Love of God made manifest in Thy lovers,

we worship Thee.

Or (not often, perhaps, for dimness seems to

be more wholesome for us here, but sometimes,

because our Lord is very merciful) it is given to

us to look up through the blue air and see the love

of God. And yet, after all, hoe little we see!

"That ye may be able to comprehend what is the

breadth and length and depth and height and to

know the love of Christ which passeth knoeledge"

the words are to great for us. What do we comprehend,

what do we know? Confounded and abases, we enter

into the Rock and hide us in the dust before the glory

of the Majesty of love the love whose symbol is the

cross.

And a question pierces then:

What do I know of Calvary love?


Written by Amy Carmichael
Taken from the book IF