Hello, I am glad you are here.
The older I get the more I want to, as Charlotte Mason references “think of oneself less.” So to get to the brief point of it, for those who will want to know who writes these posts on, let’s say for example, chewing yard weeds for bug bites and other seemingly unintelligent things…Ha! It’s me, Bethany: mom of three children, finding the narrow way alongside my husband of 13 years, and always looking for the eternal in these everyday moments.
As ‘my soul surveys’ the good ideas & beauty of this temporal life, I’ll share them here in hopes they cause your heart to also be a “rising soul”, looking towards the eternal, seeing the Father for who He is and who He made us to be.
“‘My Rising Soul Surveys.’ - How good is life, how joyous it is to go out of doors, even in the streets of a city! Surely a pleasant thing it is to see the sun! How good is health, even the small share of it allotted to the invalid! How good and congenial all the pleasant ways of home life, all family love and neighborly kindness, and the love of friends! How good it is to belong to great country and share in all her interests and concerns! How good to belong to the world of men, aware that whatever concerns men, concerns us! How good are books and pictures and music! How delightful is knowledge! How good is the food we eat! How pleasant are the clothes we wear! How sweet is sleep, and how joyful is waking!
The soul that surveys these and a thousand other good things of our common life is indeed a ‘rising soul,’ rising to the Father, — who knoweth that we have need of all these things, — with the gratitude and thanksgiving that are forced out out of a heart overflowing with love. ”