Mending up holes and learning lessons.

"I must put down a dear little story told me by my friend this morning. Her small niece, aged somewhere between three and four, was heard telling the parable of the lost sheep to a cousin a year or two older. The finale was, "So the Shepherd put back the lamb into the fold, and then he mended up the hole where it had got out."
All of sanctification as well as salvation lay in the wisdom of those child-lips" (Ezekiel 34:15-16)


"Oh the desert is lovely in it's restfulness. The great brooding stillness over and through everything is so full of God. One does not wonder that He used to take His people in to the wilderness to teach them." (Mark 6:31)

Lilias Trotter from "A Blossom in the Desert"