DeadwoodPete
07-05-2009, 09:05 PM
Hi,
I was looking through WACCO and saw that someone had done a toast to the 4th.
It aroused a memory in me of the toast in Babette's Feast. I once wrote it down to put on a birthday card for a friend, and have liked revisiting it once in awhile. Perhaps you will enjoy it as well.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 9"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 9"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/BRUCEG%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.nfakpe {mso-style-name:nfakpe;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> Toast from Babette's Feast
Mercy and truth have met together.
Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.
People, and their weakness and shortsightedness, believe they must make
choices in this life. We tremble at the risks we take.
We do know fear.
But no, our choices are of no importance.
There comes a time when our eyes are opened, and we come to realize that
mercy is infinite. We need only
await it with confidence and receive it in gratitude. Mercy imposes no
conditions.
And lo, everything we have chosen has been granted to us.
And everything we rejected has also been granted.
For mercy and truth are met together, and righteousness and bliss
shall kiss one another.
PC'ed by BG
I was looking through WACCO and saw that someone had done a toast to the 4th.
It aroused a memory in me of the toast in Babette's Feast. I once wrote it down to put on a birthday card for a friend, and have liked revisiting it once in awhile. Perhaps you will enjoy it as well.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 9"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 9"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/BRUCEG%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.nfakpe {mso-style-name:nfakpe;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> Toast from Babette's Feast
Mercy and truth have met together.
Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.
People, and their weakness and shortsightedness, believe they must make
choices in this life. We tremble at the risks we take.
We do know fear.
But no, our choices are of no importance.
There comes a time when our eyes are opened, and we come to realize that
mercy is infinite. We need only
await it with confidence and receive it in gratitude. Mercy imposes no
conditions.
And lo, everything we have chosen has been granted to us.
And everything we rejected has also been granted.
For mercy and truth are met together, and righteousness and bliss
shall kiss one another.
PC'ed by BG