Search my sense and know my heart

Search my sense and know my heart

Search me O God, my actions try, And let my life appear As seen by thine all-searching eye; To mine my ways make clear.   Search all my sense and know my heart, Who only canst make known, And let the deep, the hidden part, To me be fully shown.   Throw light into the...
I have only today

I have only today

An hour which passes by; My life is a moment Which I have no power to stay. You know, O God, That to love you here on earth – I have only today.    Therese of Lisieux (1873-97).
New every morning

New every morning

New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove; Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.   John Keble (1792-1866) 1822.
War knows no Power?

War knows no Power?

Dear! Of all happy in the hour, most blest He who has found our hid security, Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest, And heard our word, ‘Who is so safe as we?’   We have found safety with all things undying, The winds, and morning, tears of men and...
I  took the road less travelled

I took the road less travelled

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;   Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it...