My name is ‘I am’ not ‘I was’

My name is ‘I am’ not ‘I was’

I was regretting the past However dark it be; And fearing the future. Suddenly my lord was speaking; ‘My name is I am.’ He paused. I waited. He continued’ ‘When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not ‘I was’....
A flash of rare delight

A flash of rare delight

Enjoyment is a flash of rare delight, While only Christ illuminates for me The fear and darkness of this Earth’s strange night.   Audrey Milner (1924-2017), Southwell.
Mysteries yes: look with astonishment

Mysteries yes: look with astonishment

Truly we live with mysteries too marvellous               to be understood…. Let me keep my distance, always, from those               who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say               ‘Look!’ and laugh in astonishment,...
Listening now and forever?

Listening now and forever?

The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice: now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever,  which has nevertheless always been, like a sharp iron...
Feeling the Cold?

Feeling the Cold?

I found Him not in world or sun, Or in eagle’s wing, or insect’s eye; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun:…   A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason’s coldest part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up...