by revd | May 3, 2024 | Jesus Christ
It is this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply. It is a room I enter from which someone has just gone, the vestibule for the arrival of one who has not yet come. I modernise the anachronism of my language, but...
by revd | Feb 25, 2022 | Humankind
Thou art smitten, thou God Thy death is upon thee, O Lord. And the love-song of earth as thou diest Resounds through the wind of her wings – Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the Master of things. A.C. Swinburne (1837-1909), Hymn of...
by revd | Feb 25, 2022 | Our Father
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men, Unless there be who think no God at all, If any be, they walk obscure; For of such doctrine never was there school, But the heart of a fool, And no man therein doctor but himself. John Milton (1608-74), Samson...
by revd | Feb 25, 2022 | Humankind
crushed…. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And,...
by revd | Feb 25, 2022 | Our Father, Believers
My eyes are almost burned by what I see…. A brown broken bowl and in it some apricots, some small oranges, some nuts, cherries, a banana…. I cannot, I will not eat this fruit. I sit in quiet joy, so complete, beyond the meaning of joy. My soul finds its own...
