This is a beautiful book I dip into often to draw close to God - the seasonal illustrations are truly sublime but the text is equally inspiring, linked to familiar quotations from the Bible scripted in calligraphy to accompany the beautiful original artwork.
‘And Jesus comes to us today - as He did 2000 years ago - offering an unburdened soul to us who lay our baggage at His feet and take up the yoke of rest He provides.’
‘The invitation and welcome is yours: to come as broken, hopeless and burdened...and to find peace for your soul.’
I was drawn to this book by chance - I have always loved nature diaries like ‘The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady’ by Edith Holden, and on of my favourite nature books is The Shell Nature Book - I used to use its reproduced posters to illustrate my classroom nature table when I started teaching over 40 years ago.
Similarly I love books of calligraphy - Bible quotations or poetry such a ‘Springs of Joy’ by Evelyn Scaramanga, ‘The Golden Thread’ and ‘Images of Christmas’ by Dorothy Boux.
But ‘Gracelaced’ takes me further - it urges me to takes in its spiritual teachings more deeply and for that I am very grateful. As George Harrison said, ‘Everything else can wait except for the search for God.’
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