by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Strange fondness of the human heart, Enamoured of its harm! Strange world, that costs it so much smart, And still has power to charm. Whence has the world her magic power? Why deem we Death a foe? Recoil from weary life’s best hour, And covet longer woe? ...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps his goings graces; acts in God’s eyes what in God’s eyes he is – Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his to the Father through the features of men’s faces....
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art. They strike my eyes but not my heart. Ben Johnson (1573-1637)....
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Non nobis Domine!— Not unto us, O Lord! The Praise or Glory be Of any deed or word; For in Thy Judgment lies To crown or bring to nought All knowledge or device That Man has reached or wrought. And we confess our blame— How all too high we hold That noise which men...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
Sing and dance together and be joyous But let each one of you be alone Even as the strings of a lute are alone Though they quiver with the same music. Stand together yet not too near together, For the pillars of the temple stand apart And the oak tree and the...
