by revd | May 5, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Such love I cannot analyse; It does not rest in lips or eyes, Neither in kisses nor caress. Partly, I know, it’s gentleness And understanding in one word Or in brief letters. It’s preserved By trust and by respect and awe, These are the words I’m feeling for....
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
Christmas Eve! Five Hundred poets waited, pen Poised above paper, for the poem to arrive, bells ringing. It was because The chimney was too small, because they had ceased to believe, the poem had passed them by on its way out into oblivion, leaving the doorstep bare...
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
… I could see, too, the twitching of the fingers, Caught temporarily in art’s neurosis, As we sat there or warmly applauded This player who so beautifully suffered For each of us upon his instrument. So it must have been on Calvary In the fiercer light of the...
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
Was he baulked by silence? He kneeled long And saw love in a dark crown Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree Golden with fruit of a man’s body. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), Song at the Year’s Turning, 1955.
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
…The Carpenter had done his work well to sustain the carpenter’s burden; the cross an example of the power of art to transcend timber. R.S. Thomas (1913-2000).
