Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

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      OW brightly glistening in the sun
      The woodland ivy plays!
      While yonder beeches from their barks
      Reflect his silver rays.

      That sun surveys a lovely scene
      From softly smiling skies;
      And wildly through unnumbered trees
      The wind of winter sighs:

      Now loud, it thunders o’er my head,
      And now in distance dies.
      But give me back my barren hills
      Where colder breezes rise;

      Where scarce the scattered, stunted trees
      Can yield an answering swell,
      But where a wilderness of heath
      Returns the sound as well.

      For yonder garden, fair and wide,
      With groves of evergreen,
      Long winding walks, and borders trim,
      And velvet lawns between;

      Restore to me that little spot,
      With gray walls compassed round,
      Where knotted grass neglected lies,
      And weeds usurp the ground.

      Though all around this mansion high
      Invites the foot to roam,
      And though its halls are fair within—
      Oh, give me back my HOME!

      —-Anne Bronte

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What a sweet poem, Rebecca!

September 30, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDorothy

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