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Excerpted Inspirations #221

  • Writer: Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
    Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
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[Young Vicky Austin has come with her parents to visit her Grandfather, who is unwell.] Mother and Daddy were to have the room where Grandfather usually slept. It isn’t a very big room, and it has an enormous four-poster bed, seven feet wide by seven and a half feet long, which takes up almost all of the room. There’s just room to walk around the bed to make it. One side of the room is a big window which Grandfather had put in. It has shutters you can close, but when they’re open you look down the steep bluffs to the ocean and the only thing that’s further out on the bluff than Grandfather’s stable is the lighthouse. Mother and Daddy always look forward to sleeping in the enormous bed, but Mother says that the first couple of nights, even if they close the shutters, she always stays awake for a long time to see the lighthouse light as it swings around. There are no pictures in the room; Grandfather says that you can’t ask any picture to compete with that view. But on one wall he painted in soft gray Gothic letters: “God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above all, but not raised up; below, but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.” This has always been one of Grandfather’s favorite things, so we knew that it was by Hildevert of Lavardin, who wrote it sometime around 1125. -Madeleine L’Engle, Meet the Austins (1960), pp. 152-153

 
 
 

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