Accept and bear and obey the Law of Love, and nothing will be able to cripple your hinds’ feet or to separate you from me. This is the secret of the High Places, Grace and Glory, it is the lovely and...
Up from behind a sand dune close beside her rose the form of her enemy Bitterness. He did not come any nearer, having learned a little more prudence, and was not going to make her call for the Shepher...
Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that you want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason that we are here in this worl...
The same love and graciousness as though I were a queen already and not wretched little Much-Afraid. Then she looked up into his face and for a little time could say no more, but at last she added, My...
The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills (Song of Solomon 2:8). When asked what the verse meant, she looked up with a happy smile of understanding...
The awful glimpse down into the abyss of an existence without him had so staggered and appalled her heart that she felt she could never be quite the same again. However, it had opened her eyes to the...
The fourth thing, she said with a radiant face, was really the first I learned up here. Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to i...
From bitter experience she knew that pictures thrown on the screen of her imagination could seem much more unnerving and terrible than the actual facts.
Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.
The look the Shepherd turned on her was very beautiful. Nothing my Father and I have made is ever wasted, he said quietly, and the little wild flowers have a wonderful lesson to teach. They offer them...
The third thing that I learned was that you, my Lord, never regarded me as I actually was, lame and weak and crooked and cowardly. You saw me as I would be when you had done what you promised and had...
I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be.
As for the other three, they have made off into some hiding place, and are not likely to trouble you again in the same way now that they realize that I am within call.
Then as she looked up in his face, he smiled most sweetly and said something he had never said before, You have one real beauty, Much-Afraid, you have such trustful eyes. Trust is one of the much beau...
Then she looked at the Shepherd and suddenly knew she could not doubt him, could not possibly turn back from following him; that if she were unfit and unable to love anyone else in the world, yet in h...
There are no obstacles which our Savior’s love cannot overcome. The High Places of victory and union with Christ can be reached by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permi...
The Shepherd laughed too. I love doing preposterous things, he replied. Why, I don’t know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that w...
In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.
So remember this; as long as you are willing to be Acceptance-with-Joy and Bearing-in-Love, you can never again be crippled, and you will be able to go wherever I lead you. You will be able to go down...
When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.
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