Lake Isle of Innisfree

  I decided to make this blog as a tool to keep in contact with all those I love and to allow them to be a part of this extremely exciting next stage of my life as I am planning for my future. I will be posting wedding updates and ideas and other random life thoughts and updates as they come.

  I called the blog My Deep Heart's Core because it is the last line in a poem by William Yeats that has grown on me over time and become one of my favourites. It gives a beautiful picture of a man isolating himself in a place he loves surrounded by nature.. The poem is consumed with a sense of peace. Peace has seemed to be a major theme in my life in the last year as God has shown me to rest in His love and grace no matter the circumstances around me. I often find myself searching for answers to many lifes questions as though I will attain an indefinite answer, but often God says no. The challenge is being able to find peace and feel comfortable in solitude; to be able to sit in silence and not let the worthless, loveless and bitter thoughts that often builds walls between you and the Divine get in the way. Allow God to shatter those with his extravagant desire for you, His grace will swallow you and it will soon become impossible not to find a way to live it out and mold your life around it. Rest in Him in the deepest core of your heart.

"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,

An live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavement gray,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”