“on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood…” this seems counter-intuitive to those of us who like to duck our heads and dash between dry, warm places.
It’s been nothing but rain for days.
And in the last 24 hours it went from warm and blustery to cold and drippy … creeks are flooding and the sky is grey.
On “duck and run” days like this, I like to re-read this quote from Lewis that has helped me develop my perspective on how I see the world – especially on drippy, cold, dreary days.
I pray that God will give me the strength to lift my face, feel the dripping cold glory, and thank God for being so magnificently all that He is!
“Jenkins seemed to be able to enjoy everything, even ugliness. I learned from him that we should attempt a total surrender to whatever atmosphere was offering itself at the moment; in a squalid town, seek out those very places where its squalor rose to grimness and almost grandeur, on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood, on a windy day to seek the windiest ridge. There was not Betjemannic irony about it; only a serious, yet gleeful, determination to rub one’s nose in the very quiddity of each thing, to rejoice in its being (so magnificently) what it was”
Our God is a consuming fire 