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Excerpted Inspirations #172

  • Writer: Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
    Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
  • Apr 7
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We see something of what God is in nature, that he is beauty and strength, life and light, and I myself see in the passing seasons the work of his incarnation, when he leaped down to us and caught us up to be with him in his life and death, even as he is with us in ours, and to be swept up with him to the new life of his resurrection. I see the same process echoed in the course of history when some civilization grows to a peak of beauty and then decays and appears to die. Yet the death is only that of the body. If we take as an example Greek culture at its purest and strongest, at that moment when it reflected something of the beauty of God, we can see that the soul of it is with us still. I think this is the way God works in history. This is what he does as he slowly brings mankind to his ultimate (and inconceivable) purpose for us. -Elizabeth Goudge, Radio Talk for Holy Week, BBC Radio Four, 31st March 1972. Typescript in Dr. Mark Dutton’s Archive. Quoted in Christine Rawlins, Beyond the Snow (2015), p. 429-30

 
 
 

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