"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I just spent a wonderful morning with a good friend. We had breakfast, caught up on news and then spent the rest of the morning playing guitar together and singing. It was absolutely wonderful. There really is something about music which both soothes and enlivens the soul:
“Music is the vernacular of the human soul” – Geoffrey Latham
When given the gift of loneliness, which is the gift of liberty, [those who do not appreciate the freedom of having nothing to do] will cast it away; they will destroy it deliberately with some dreadful game with cards or a little ball… I cannot repress a shudder when I see them throwing away their hard-won holidays by doing something. For my own part, I never can get enough Nothing to do – G. K Chesterton
Thanks to Transformed In Christ for the quotation!