by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Humankind
I sought to stand for God Tall, straight and proud, An oak of righteousness Head in a cloud. The spirit winds that blew Stripped all my leaf, Broke heavy branches off, Trunk split in grief. The gentle morning sun Shone down on me, My helplessness complete, A...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Be still my soul, and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love still as once you...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Come with me into the field of sunflowers. Their faces are burnished disks, their dry spines creak like ship masts, their green leaves, So heavy and many, fill all the day with the sticky sugars of the sun. Come with me to visit the...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Holy Spirit
Oh, feed me this day, Holy Spirit, with the fragrance of the fields and the freshness of the oceans which you have made, and help me to hear and to hold in all dearness those exacting and wonderful words of our Lord Jesus Christ, saying: Follow me. Mary Oliver...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
When God wants to drill a man, And thrill a man, and skill a man, When God wants to mould a man To play the noblest part; When he yearns with all his heart To create so great and bold a man That all the world shall be amazed, Watch his methods, watch his ways; How...
