tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post8694335036464602211..comments2023-05-01T04:51:15.777-07:00Comments on Gladsome Lights: Quote of the Week--StevensonGretchenJoannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post-35453862217179464132009-10-01T11:12:49.771-07:002009-10-01T11:12:49.771-07:00Margaret, can you tell me the title of the whole p...Margaret, can you tell me the title of the whole poem you quoted?GretchenJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post-67643381034650654482009-09-30T15:29:31.823-07:002009-09-30T15:29:31.823-07:00Margaret, thank you for the good verses, which I w...Margaret, thank you for the good verses, which I will save and read again, reminders of what are true blessings.GretchenJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post-57199608041287814462009-09-30T11:23:16.479-07:002009-09-30T11:23:16.479-07:00I always think this after I've been away from ...I always think this after I've been away from home or have been ill and unable to do even the simplest household chores. Great quote. I'm copying it into my Book of Favorites.<br /><br />jodyGumbo Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02747138637571716591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post-77222870228336685882009-09-30T11:20:44.968-07:002009-09-30T11:20:44.968-07:00Stevenson is from my hometown, he said it was a wo...Stevenson is from my hometown, he said it was a wonderful place to be buried but an awful place to live. With winter setting in I remember him every year. <br /><br />This quote reminds me of verses from a poem (hymn too) by the Anglican priest, John Keble, "We need not bid, for cloistered cell,<br />Our neighbor and our words farewell,<br />Nor strive to find ourselves too high<br />For sinful man beneath the sky.<br /><br />The trivial round, the common task,<br />Will furnish all we ought to ask;<br />Room to deny ourselves, a road<br />To bring us daily nearer God."margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727534908302610374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post-5400188832156690502009-09-28T20:59:01.987-07:002009-09-28T20:59:01.987-07:00Mark, too tired to make his own comments says, giv...Mark, too tired to make his own comments says, give Gretchen a comment for me "I must be doing the sweetest work on the planet."<br />He is tired...Jeannettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115410908800997558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512869338404805014.post-76276246253522741462009-09-28T18:21:45.837-07:002009-09-28T18:21:45.837-07:00I love it. . . plain, common work.I love it. . . plain, common work.Pom Pomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524994024698986829noreply@blogger.com