glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- he alone truly prizes Christ's fullness who feels his own emptiness It is 3:08 PM Monday afternoon here in Holland Michigan/a small town known for it's tulips and trees. It is 65 degrees and rainy this afternoon. It has been raining all day/a cold gray rain. I got up this morning around 7:50 AM. When I came upstairs Carol was gone, she had left the house to do errands. I spent the morning writing in my paper diary and reading from a book titled, 'The Happiness Of Enjoying And Making A True And Speedy Use Of Christ' by Alexander Grosse. Carol got home from her errands around 10:07 AM. This afternoon I have been reading from a book titled, 'Cosmic Scholar The Filmmaker, Folkorist, and Mystic Who Transformed American Art-The Life And Times Of Harry Smith' biography by John Szwed. In the mail today I received two books I had ordered- 'The Storyteller-Tales Of Loneliness' by Walter Benjamin With Illustrations By Paul Klee Translated and Edited by Sam Dolber, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski 'Civil Disobediences-Poetics and Politics in Action' Edited By Anne Waldman & Lisa Birman Last night my wife and I watched Professional Football on mute, we both read/Carol got home from church around 8 o'clock PM last night/I read while the TV was on mute, 'The Anatomy Lesson' a novel by Philip Roth. There is nothing else to report on this cold gray rainy afternoon. I will close quoting from the book, 'The Happiness Of Enjoying And Making A True And Speedy Use Of Christ' by Alexander Grosse- "Toward the end that we may all come to Christ, and for the better disposing and fitting of our hearts thus to come to Christ, we must first be sensible of our emptiness without Christ. We must feel our souls as an empty stomach where there is no meat, as an empty lamp where there is no light, and as an empty or withered arm where there is no strength. The people in the famine being sensible of the emptiness and lack of corn at home came to Joseph, with whom was all the fullness of Egypt. He alone truly prizes Christ's fullness who feels his own emptiness. The sons of Jacob went not out of their own country down to Egypt for bread until they found the lack thereof at home. Man never goes out of himself to Christ till he knows the vanity and emptiness of his own heart. He who knows this will hasten his soul to Christ, as Jacob hastened his sons to Egypt" pg. 66 Alexander Grosse 'A True And Speedy Use Of Christ' 3:34 p.m. - 2023-09-11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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