‘Foolish soul who sinned today’

‘Foolish soul who sinned today’

Canst be idle? Canst thou play, Foolish soul who sinned today?   Hast thou tears, or hast thou none? If poor soul, thou hast no tears, Would thou hadst no faults or fears!   Who in heart not ever kneels, Neither sin nor Saviour feels.   George Herbert...
‘His Eye to Watch’

‘His Eye to Watch’

I bind unto myself today The power of God to hold and lead, His eye to watch, his might to stay, His ear to hearken to my need, The wisdom of my God to teach, His hand to guide, his shield to ward, The word of God to give me speech, His heavenly host to by my guard....
Christ My King

Christ My King

No one can come to spiritual delight in the contemplation of Christ’s godhead except he come first in imagination by painful identification, by compassion and steadfast thinking on his humanity. Walter Hilton (1343 – 96), Toward a Perfect Love.      ...
The world’s ‘danger’

The world’s ‘danger’

I saw a stable low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew him, had him in their care. To men he was a stranger. The safety of the world was lying there And the world’s danger.   Mary Elizabeth Coleridge...
The wise men’s dilemma; a life or death

The wise men’s dilemma; a life or death

… were we led all that way for Birth or death? There was a Birth certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places,...