Savouring Grace

I said I was going to do it, and I finally did.  I would have chosen this blog name long ago, but savoringgrace.com was taken and I had never considered the alternate spelling until now.  It’s apt for a variety of reasons:

1. It reflects my Canadian/British heritage
2. It’s from the period we’re studying in history this year — the Middle Ages — which was the golden age of English literature (and the English language itself), or so I presume from my favorite authors having been professors of medieval literature (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Sayers, and the other inklings).
3. The extra letter makes it longer which fits better with the meaning of the word.  I like to linger over words as well as flavours.
4. It sounds more sophisticated.  Like theatre instead of theater.  Honour above honor.  It has a sort of frenchyness that lends more beauty to the word.
5. It resembles “Savior”, which is fitting for the play on words (Savouring Grace = Saving Grace).

I found this choice quote (and little else) when I googled the phrase:

This Light, this Sound, this Savouring Grace, This Tasteful Sweet, this Strict Embrace, No Place containes, no Eye can see, My God is; and there’s none but He.

It’s excerpted from two of George MacDonald’s books (he was C.S. Lewis’ literary mentor).  He was actually quoting a section of a long poem called Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells by Thomas Heywood, an actor/poet/dramatist from the Middle Ages whom I could find little about, so I’m not certain if the rest of his theology was sound, but this line is breathtaking.  Supposedly Charles Lamb described him as a kind of “prose Shakespeare.”

To see how the name fits the blog, check out my updated About page.

My new email address — myrrhc at savouringgrace dot com — is up and running.