The Desert Pilgrim

Archive for the ‘Streams in the Desert’ Category

The Rainy Season

Posted by: fcbaula on: September 27, 2008

If peace be in your heart, the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty – Charles Francis Richardson [...]

Where your treasure is, there your heart is also…

Posted by: fcbaula on: September 28, 2007

My heart is there!
Where on eternal hills, my loved one dwells
Among the lilies and asphodels;
Clad in the brightness of the Great White Throne
Glad in the smile of Him who sits thereon
The glory gliding all His wealth of hair
And making His immortal face more fair—
THERE IS MY TREASURE and heart is there.
—part of the favorite poem [...]

Of Standing Still and Waiting

Posted by: fcbaula on: September 1, 2007

Must life be considered a failure for someone compelled to stand still forced into inaction and required to watch the great, roaring tides of life from shore? No—victory is then to be won by standing still and quietly waiting. Yet this is a thousand times harder to do than in the past, when you rushed [...]