S4:E10 – Only the Lover Sings: Lanier Ivester, “Eggardon Hill”

Eggardon Hill by Lanier Ivester | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/OTW_S4-E10-OTLS_Lanier-Ivester.mp3 Lanier Ivester is a homemaker and writer in the beautiful state of Georgia, where she maintains a small farm with her husband, Philip, and an ever-expanding menagerie of cats, dogs, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, and peacocks. She studied English Literature at the University of Oxford, and her special areas of interest include the intersection of Christianity and art, the sacramental nature of everyday life, and the truth-bearing witness of the imagination. For over a decade she has kept a web journal at lanierivester.com, and her work has also been featured on The Rabbit Room, Art House America, The Gospel Coalition, and The Cultivating Project, among others. She has lectured across the country on topics ranging from the meaning of home to the integration of faith and reason, and in both her writing and her speaking she seeks to honor the holy longings of a homesick world. <li class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_74 et_pb_social_icon et_pb_social_network_link et-social-instagram'><a href='https://www.instagram.com/lanierivester/' class='icon et_pb_with_border' title='Follow on Instagram' target="_blank"><span class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_name' aria-hidden='true' >Follow<li class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_75 et_pb_social_icon et_pb_social_network_link et-social-youtube'><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgcHtm4NoI' class='icon et_pb_with_border' title='Follow on Youtube' target="_blank"><span class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_name' aria-hidden='true' >Follow<li class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_76 et_pb_social_icon et_pb_social_network_link et-social-rss'><a href='https://lanierivester.com/' class='icon et_pb_with_border' title='Follow on RSS' target="_blank"><span class='et_pb_social_media_follow_network_name' aria-hidden='true' >Follow Every Beauty  Think of the world the Lord has made As if it were a lover’s bouquet  Held out just to make the heart of God Plain in every beauty that you see  Every star in the sky  Every kind look in someone’s eyes  He is calling out to you Through the good things he’s speaking through  &nbsp; Maybe a there’s a story that you’ve heard  That opened up an aching in your heart   Where something like a light behind a door  Has made it through the cracks to where you are  There’s a lump in your throat  And the tears come to your surprise Like there’s someplace that you belong  With someone who loved you all along  &nbsp; BRIDGE  Every heart born on earth, Is so thirsty to be loved But every heart gets so beat up, Till it’s lost out in the hurt  And the heartbeat of our song, As we try to get it back  Is same tune that the Lord, Is singing back to us  &nbsp; Now, there is a highway through this world  That opens like an aisle for a bride  And you can hear the song the groom has made  Threading through the patchwork of our days  There’s table like a ring  And a King down upon one knee  Hear the blood and body speak:  Make the whole world our wedding feast © Matthew Clark 2022  &nbsp; The post S4:E10 &#8211; Only the Lover Sings: Lanier Ivester, &#8220;Eggardon Hill&#8221; appeared first on Matthew Clark.