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About Me

Scottish Christian mystic, novelist, poet, actor, and family man. You may have read some of my books and stories, such as Lilith, Wee Sir Gibbie, The Golden Key, Robert Falconer, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, Unspoken Sermons, and Phantastes. ******Read my books online for free: http://www.george-macdonald.com/etexts.htm"I have never concealed the fact that I regarded (George MacDonald) as my master; indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him."- C.S.Lewis real editor best profile tools real editor best profile tools

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My Interests

Teaching, writing, poetry, German Romantic poets, fairy tales, the Highlands, the MacDonald clan, exposing false views of my goodly Father

I'd like to meet:

Novalis, John Runyan, John the Apostle, Madame Guyon, you

Music:

I love all music, for it comes from the creator

Movies:

I do a theatrical version of The Pilgrim's Progress with my family. My character is known as Greatheart. Although I don't usually dabble in modern entertainment, I admit a fondness for the mytheopic qualities of Terrence Malik movies.

Television:

It wastes precious time that you could spend being creative or reading a book

Books:

The Bible, Pilgrims Progress, Spiritual Songs of Novalis, William Wordsworth, the Bard, Lewis Carrol, Mark Twain

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Louisa, My Dad, William Wallace, Novalis, Akiane, and you, my dear child

My Blog

The Becoming

For to deny God in my own being is to cease to behold him in any. God and man can meet only by the man's becoming that which God meant him to be.- Birth, Dreaming, Death...
Posted by George MacDonald on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:13:00 PST

Autumn Days

We bore him through the golden land, One early harvest morn; The corn stood ripe on either hand --- He knew all about the corn. ...
Posted by George MacDonald on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:10:00 PST

Autumn Nights

So, like the corn moon-ripened last, Would I, weary and gray, On golden memories ripen fast, And ripening pass away. In an old night...
Posted by George MacDonald on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:02:00 PST

A Shadow Likeness

(St Paul) knew nothing of the so-called Christian systems that change the glory of the perfect God into the likeness of the low intellects and dull consciences of men -- a worse corruption than the re...
Posted by George MacDonald on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:01:00 PST

Law or Will?

The kingdom of heaven is not come, even when God's will is our law: it is come when God's will is our will. While God's will is our law, we are but a kind of noble slaves; when his will is our will, w...
Posted by George MacDonald on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:19:00 PST

The Creative Presence of Love

God is Love, and God is all and in all! He is no abstraction, but the one eternal Individual! In him Love evermore breaks forth anew into fresh personality in every new consciousness, in every new chi...
Posted by George MacDonald on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:41:00 PST

Honesty

The honesty in which a man can pride himself must be a small one, for more honesty will ever reveal more defect, while perfect honesty will never think of itself at all.-Miracles of Our Lord...
Posted by George MacDonald on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:37:00 PST

Coming Sonship

Then I saw every little flower -- on the way we went they were mostly humble flowers of the lowly mosses -- straighten its stalk and lift up its neck, with outstretched head looking for the sonship of...
Posted by George MacDonald on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:43:00 PST

Life vs The Life

In this loneliness of despair, life must find The Life.-David Elginbrod (the novel)
Posted by George MacDonald on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:15:00 PST

Hoping for the Spring

"...If you turn your face to the sun, my boy, your soul will, when you come to die, feel like an autumn, with the golden fruits of the earth hanging in rich clusters ready to...
Posted by George MacDonald on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:19:00 PST