CQOD: 11/18/06 -- Wilde: the broken gates

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 18, 2006Meditation:
    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
    -- Isaiah 57:15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    And thus we rust Life’s iron chain
        Degraded and alone:
    And some men curse, and some men weep,
        And some men make no moan:
    But God’s eternal Laws are kind
        And break the heart of stone.

    And every human heart that breaks,
        In prison-cell or yard,
    Is as that broken box that gave
        Its treasure to the Lord,
    And filled the unclean leper’s house
        With the scent of costliest nard.

    Ah! happy they whose hearts can break
        And peace of pardon win!
    How else may man make straight his plan
        And cleanse his soul from sin?
    How else but through a broken heart
        May Lord Christ enter in?
        ... Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), The Ballad of Reading Gaol [1898]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have granted brokenness to Your servants.

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