Simply Sabbath . . .

Toward Jerusalem

Opening our windows toward Jerusalem,

And looking thitherward, we see

First Bethlehem,

Then Nazareth and Galilee,

And afterwards Gethsemane,

And then the little hill called Calvary.

-Amy Carmichael

"The key to the world is in the form of a cross, but it cannot do anything until someone's hand lifts it and fits it into the keyhole." 

                                                                                                     -Howard C. Scharfe

I saw God bare His soul one day

Where all the earth might see

The stark and naked heart of Him

On lonely Calvary.

There was a crimson sky of blood

And overhead a storm;

When lightening slit the clouds

And light engulfed His form.

Beyond the storm a rainbow lent

A light to every clod,

And on that cross mine eyes beheld

The naked soul of God.

-William L. Stidger