When You Feel Unseen

"To live a spiritual life, we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into the garden of solitude." Henri Nouwen

"All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at.... Many a quiet, ordinary and hidden life, unknown to the world is a veritable garden in which love's flowers and fruits have come to such perfection that it is a place of delight where the King of Love Himself walks and rejoices with His friends." Hannah Hurnard

"He speaks and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing
And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known." C. Austin Miles

Have you found the courage by gentle and persistent efforts to till a garden space in your heart? Would you hush with the birds at the sound of Jesus' voice? Could you tarry in time for love's flower and fruit to grow?

Our quiet and ordinary lives bloom to the delight of the King of Love. This King plants a melody in our garden hearts and stakes a sign in the soil: "Mine. Mine. Mine."