God’s fantastic move

God’s fantastic move

Tripping over Joy What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint?   The saint knows that the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just a Fantastic Move   That the saint is now continually Tripping...
I despise myself and curse my fate

I despise myself and curse my fate

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone between my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising Haply I think...
Ageing happily

Ageing happily

Who would have thought my shrivelled heart Could have recovered greenness? It was gone Quite underground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown; Where they together All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown….   And now in...
No cross; no crown

No cross; no crown

No pain; no palm. No thorns; no throne. No gall; no glory. No cross; no crown.   William Penn (1644-1718).
Open to surprise

Open to surprise

Sometimes a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord, who rises with healing in his wings; when comforts are declining, he grants the soul again a season of clear shining, to cheer it after rain.   William Cowper...