#divine fire

[flowersandspacestuff]

A favorite painting of mine. Left the background because whoa, that glow! In the sun 🥰

[theinwardlight]

If, as we meet day by day in this [London] Yearly Meeting, we dedicate ourselves to this new and joyful life of expectancy and hope; if it be given us to believe that our dulled spiritual faculties shall be touched with divine fire, so that even to us shall come some wonderful revelation of the great Realities – a manifestation of the presence of the Son of Man in our midst; one result will be that we shall find ourselves fused into a new and precious unity. When Jesus appeared so unexpectedly to the disciples on the day of the Resurrection, His salutation was, Peace be unto you. And to be profoundly aware of Him, to be lifted out of ourselves and to become absorbed in Him, means that His peace will overflow and permeate our corporate life. Judgment and point of view may, and must, differ; but in the realised presence of our Lord there is a peace which goes deeper than any divergence of thought and outlook, and which carries with it the fulfillment of His intercessory prayer, That they all may be one.

William Littleboy, The Day of Our Visitation (Swarthmore Lecture, 1917)

[random-xpressions]

[smokefalls]

But life is yours: arise and love.

David Woo, “The Leaf Blower Among in the Dust Storm” from Divine Fire

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

A. B. Simpson

[bigsqueezer]

Big squeezing hug - THUNDERSARENA

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[wearepaladin]

Wings of the Sacred Dawn by  Rosa Lee

There will come a day that the Light will never fade.

The Parable of the Venging Fire, as interpreted by Pujari

A young Warlock travels to her mentor, seeking the truth of the Praxic Fire. A wildfire rages in a valley nearby. Her mentor points to the billowing smoke, saying, "This is the Praxic Fire. Go, and learn what you can." And the student returns to her teacher, saying, "Master, the fire does not ask, the fire acts. That is the truth." Her mentor laughs, and the flames leave the sky from the valley and surround the teacher, and the wind blows the smoke away. The old Warlock, now wreathed in flame with great outstretched wings, says, "The heart of the Praxic Fire is the Warlock. Without the Warlock, fire does not ask or act. Be the fire, or be smoke on the wind." The cowering student stands, her palms closing into fists.

[smokefalls]

I have only this to say: I am burdened by sins I had neither occasion nor power to commit.

David Woo, “Divine Fire (After Luis Cernuda’s ‘Apologia Pro Vita Sua’)” from Divine Fire