Hypocrisy invisible except to God

Hypocrisy invisible except to God

Hypocrisy – the only evil that walks Invisible except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth; And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill...
God’s secretary

God’s secretary

of all the creatures both in sea and land Only to man hast thou made known thy ways, And put the pen alone into his hand, And made him secretary of thy praise.   Beasts fain would sing; birds dittie to their notes; Trees would be tuning on their native lute To...
Our life’s star

Our life’s star

The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of...
‘I exist.’ Why?

‘I exist.’ Why?

A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist.’ ‘However,’ replied the universe. ‘The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.’   Stephen Crane (1871-1900), War is Kind and Other Lines, 1899.
The end of  our exploring

The end of our exploring

What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from….   … A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter’s...