by revd | Aug 8, 2025 | Christ-likeness
I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Yea! On the glancing wings Of eager birds, the softly pattering feet Of furred and gentle beasts, I come to meet Your hard and wayward heart. In bright brown eyes That peep from out the brake, I stand confest. On every nest...
by revd | May 2, 2025 | Mission, Glory
All things rising, all things sizing Mary sees, sympathising With that world of good, Nature’s motherhood. Their magnifying of each its kind With delight calls to mind How she did in her stored Magnify the Lord. Gerard Manley Hopkins...
by revd | Apr 17, 2025 | Humankind
O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew – Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender…. Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. Ten or twelve, only ten...
by revd | Apr 12, 2025 | Believers, Church
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field, And, on the fighter, forge his glorious day. On Christ they do and on the martyr may; But be the war within, the...
by revd | Mar 27, 2025 | Jesus Christ
But ah, bright forelock, cluster that you are Of favoured make and mind and health and youth, Where lies your landmark, sea mark, or soul’s star? There’s none but truth can stead you. Christ is truth. There’s none but good can be good, both...
