《荒漠甘泉》5月30日

THERE are songs which can only be learned in the valley. No art can teach them; no rules of voice can make them perfectly sung. Their music is in the heart. They are songs of memory, of personal experience. They bring out their burden from the shadow of the past: they mount on the wings of yesterday.

St. John says that even in Heaven there will be a song that can only be fully sung by the sons of earth─the strain of redemption. Doubtless it is a song of triumph, a hymn of victory to the Christ who made us free. But the sense of triumph must come from the memory of the chain. 谷逸人力资源专业博客.eAZKdrO-Z%n%PX

No angel, no archangel can sing it so sweetly as I can. To sing it as I sing it, they must pass through my exile, and this they cannot do. None can learn it but the children of the Cross.

And so, my soul, thou art receiving a music lesson from thy Father. Thou art being educated for the choir invisible. There are parts of the symphony that none can take but thee. 谷逸人力资源专业博客(sh-m q\$y

There are chord too minor for the angels. There may be heights in the symphony which are beyond the scale heights which angels alone can reach; but there are depth which belong to thee, and can only be touched by thee.

Thy Father is training thee for the part the angels cannot sing; and the school is sorrow. I have heard many say that He sends sorrow to prove thee; nay, he sends sorrow to educate thee, to train thee for the choir invisible.

In the night He is preparing thy song. In the valley He is tuning thy voice. In the cloud He is deepening thy chords. In the rain He is sweetening thy melody. In the cold He is moulding thy expression. In the transition from hope to fear He is perfecting thy lights. 谷逸人力资源专业博客1v*w,Vb5G0p'T

Despise not thy school of sorrow, O my soul; it will give thee a unique part in the universal song. --- George Matheson.

"Is the midnight closing round you?
h$MdHzH0Are the shadows dark and long?
_b Kr2x'b#ZL0Ask Him to come close beside you,谷逸人力资源专业博客,d_,tN2C khm
And He'll give you a new, sweet song.谷逸人力资源专业博客.B[UN"G
He'll give it and sing it with you;
,Y | ~"D:y)Y"jI6h0And when weakness lets it down,
?s{|VnP0He'll take up the broken cadence,谷逸人力资源专业博客d;w&]/o*e)t+sZ
And blend it with His own.谷逸人力资源专业博客F'Ej/LK.ml,y

"And many a rapturous minstrel,
?drp`w'INQ0Among those sons of light,
aeJT;m0Will say of His sweetest music,
\!R,rShJPG0` I learned it in the night.'谷逸人力资源专业博客X0j ]+b:}&h L l0Y e!F
And many a rolling anthem,谷逸人力资源专业博客1w{#W,Ao$`x
That fills the Father's home,谷逸人力资源专业博客MI w+^.x)r
Sobbed out its first rehearsal,谷逸人力资源专业博客 q~M w!o4b^W i
In the shade of a darkened room."谷逸人力资源专业博客%tbDDE3_!Dr.G