“Dag Hammarskjöld’s posthumously discovered journal was first published in 1963. The original manuscript consists of a collection of brief typewritten statements placed in a loose leaf folder. Hammarskjöld, it appears, from time to time typed out his journal entries and placed them in the folder. Nothing indicates that he considered the journal completed, or that he was not intending to continue it.” –Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
This is a book of personal devotions which compels a deep searching of one’s inner life. Dr. Baillie has written each prayer so that it has that rare quality of seeming to have been written for the reader personally, to fit his own special needs.
Here is an understanding or the aspects of GOD’s relation to man and man’s relation to GOD through prayer. Adoratioin, meditation and intercession are mingled witha strong sense of the social needs of the world as well as the needs of the individual-all done with that perfect taste and feeling for worship for which D. Baillie is so widely recognized. –from the inside cover.
Baron von Hügel said about thoughtful reading: “That daily quarter of an hour, forty years or more, I am sure has been one of the greatest sustenances and sources of calm for my life.”
Dr. Bailie, in this book, has selected 365 reading from the main stream of devotional writing, one for each day of the year. These are chosen for their value in stimulation serious thought and contemplation and are not the trite, familiar sayings that one usually associates with anthologies. Many have the quality that made A Diary of Private Prayer so popular. –from the inside cover.
And then there’s my Notes to Self. In a Bible, on scraps of paper, and somehow lately in a notebook, they track my passage sailing an Abundant Life in YeshuaJesus.
Jonah’s Song 