Longing to believe

Longing to believe

While faith is with me, I am blest; It turns my darkest night to day; But, while I clasp it to my breast, I often feel it slide away.   What shall I do if all my love, My hopes, my toil, are cast away? And if there be no God above To hear and bless me when I...
A Falling Leaf

A Falling Leaf

… My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me. My life is like a faded Leaf’ My harvest dwindled to a husk; Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud or greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall – the...
Saved to save others

Saved to save others

Are you content, have you no higher aim Than just to gain admittance at the door, In faintest characters to trace your name Among the list of those who die no more?   Do you not feel that you are saved to live? Do you not know you are saved to save? Forgiven that you...
Tomorrow Morning

Tomorrow Morning

Here dies another day, During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world around me; And with tomorrow begins another. Why am I allowed two?   G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936).
Christ died for God and me

Christ died for God and me

Christ died for God and me Upon the crucifixion tree For God a spoken Word For me a Sword For God a hymn of praise For me eternal days For God an explanation For me salvation.   Stevie Smith (1902-71),...