O Father, I follow you in blind obedience. I resign my judgments, my hopes, and my plans, for your judgement is true, your will, infallible. Help me to realize how little anything I have done is, but how wonderful your works are. Help me not to seek my own glorification, but now utterly reject myself in complete submission to you. All my worries, my doubts, my aspirations I commit unto you, my God. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done.
– Prayer Journal, December 16, 2014
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Recommitment in a time of stress
Drapery and contours of creation
What could approach Iconography?
Peace that is not of this world
The permanence of God’s beauty
Journal entries written on hearts
“If you give me anything, let me love Jesus.”
“I am your servant” — painting the Baptism of Christ
Help me to withhold nothing (“Teach me to be a great saint”)
Ready to receive you (an Advent prayer)
“An intense desire.” A longing to depart from this fallen world.
“Why are you afraid?” Isaac’s final journal entry
“Moved to tears: the meaning behind Isaac’s gravestone”
“The reward of distracted prayer” (November 27th)
“The end of all beauties” (November 21s
“Memento mori” (November 18th)
“Root out my sin” (November 15th)
“Let me suffer” (November 12th)
Why the title? About the Offerings of Isaac