by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
For the blood of thy martyrs and saints Shall enrich the earth, shall create holy places. For wherever a saint has dwelt, wherever a martyr has given his blood for the blood of Christ, There is holy ground, and the sanctity shall not depart from it Though armies...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown…. But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea…. And all shall be well and...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
In this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply. It is a room I enter from which someone has just gone, the vestibule for the arrival of one who has not yet come. R.S. Thomas...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
In a busy world, A place to be still; In a divided world, A place to find friendship; In a confusing world, A place to find direction; In a sinful world, A place to know the love of God. A place for loving, When the world hates; A place for hoping, When the...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
I was the chapel pastor, the abrupt shadow staining the neutral fields, troubling the men who grew there with my glib dutiful praise of a fool’s world; a man ordained for ever to pick his way along the grass-strewn wall dividing tact from truth. I knew it all,...
