I'm reading Tennyson's Idylls of the King this summer for Book Tea. It's wonderful, although I might find it pretty hard going if I hadn't read James Knight's version for children of Morte d'Artur and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain first.
I'm also reading John Owen's Mortification of Sin. These two, surprisingly, complement each other nicely.
When the fair Elaine falls in love with the dashing Sir Lancelot,
"The shackles of an old love straiten'd him,
His honour rooted in dishonour stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."
He was faithful to his unfaithful love for Queen Guinevere. Consequently, Elaine pined away unto death and then dramatically (to say the least) made a point of letting Lancelot know. It's worth reading if you don't know the story...and you must read it to understand Anne's perilous river journey which ended with Gilbert's rescue in Anne of Green Gables.
Here's Owen on sin's effect on our judgement:
"Sin's loud voice darkens the mind so that it cannot make a right judgement of things...so that it does not rightly judge the guilt of sin."
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Nothing like a little Tennyson to kick off the summer! ;-)
I wanted to stop by and say thank you for the link. May God richly bless those things you set your hand to do.
David McCrory
The Reformed Puritan
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