Word: meek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp January afternoon when the snow blanket is deep and drink of the beauty on white hills. Earth lies patiently sleeping . . . Above walls and fences sumacs hold scraggly arms with faded, brown-flame candles . . . Winter birds call from the groves; regal cock pheasants stalk along the hedgerows with their meek ladies. This is the heart of winter . . . but in the tightly wrapped buds is assurance of the Great Promise...
...overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were gone from his eyes. He was captured the day before war's end with a sword in his hand. Now he was bewildered, crushed. He murmured: "Razvi...
...Flicka, 1945; My Friend Flicka, 1943), is a wild, spectacular white stallion who gallops magnificently from ranch to ranch scrounging beautiful young mares by the dozen and leading them off to his harem deep in the hills. In the current installment this beguiling libertine is transformed into as meek a monogamist as ever commuted from Westchester...
Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
Sinners need not hang back, says the Cloud: "No man needs to think that he is presumptuous in daring to offer himself to God as a contemplative even though he has been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew...