taking it literally

Coffee with friend Boniface and Robin the other day was enriching, as always. Boniface has talked about Candleford, the BBC series  that she and her daughter have been watching online. She had just gotten the autobiographical book at the library before we met, so toted it inside to our coffee table. She opened it randomly to a page that held this marvelous quote. It was one I needed to hear about casting cares, and how God loves to hear our concerns.

"It amused Laura and Edmund to hear Mr. Barker telling God it had not rained in a fortnight and that his carrot bed was getting 'mortal dry;' or that swine fever had broken out at a farm four miles away.... God must know already, as He knew everything. But these one-sided conversations with the Deity were conducted in a spirit of simple faith. 'Cast your care upon Him' was a text they loved and took literally. To them God was a loving Father who loved to listen to His children's confidences. No trouble was too small to bring to the Mercy Seat...."

 

From Larkrise to Candleford