by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
He placed a prayer-wheel where the wild winds dance, And some complained his piety was lazy; But then his thoughts on prayer were rather lazy; Yet God attended to his suppliance. He knelt on scarlet plush before his Lord’ And mumbled words of ancient litanies, But...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
Prayer is like watching for the Kingfisher. All you can do is Be where he is likely to appear, and Wait. Often nothing happens; There is space, silence and Expectancy. No visible sign, only the Knowledge that he’s been there, And may come again. Seeing or not seeing...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
There are nights that are so still That I can hear the small owl calling Far off, and a fox barking miles away. It is then that I lie in the lean hours awake, listening to the swell born somewhere in the Atlantic, rising and falling, rising and falling, wave on wave...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
The waves run up the shore and fall back. I run up the approaches of God and fall back. The breakers return reaching a little further, gnawing away at the main land. They have done this thousands of years, exposing little by little the rock under the soil’s face. I...
by revd | Apr 20, 2022 | Believers
I leave aside my shoes, my ambitions undo my watch, my timetable take off my glasses, my views unclip my pen, my work put down my keys, my security to be alone with you, the only true God. After being with you I take up my shoes, to walk in your ways strap...
