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,...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
They chose their pastors as they chose their horses for hard work. But the last one died sooner than they expected; nothing sinister, You understand, but just the natural breaking of the heart beneath a load unfit for horses, ‘Ay, he’s a good ‘un’, Job Davies had...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
We stand looking at each other. I take the word ‘prayer’ and present it to them. I wait idly what their lips will make of it. But they hand back such presents. I am left alone with no echoes to the amen I dreamed of. I am saved by the music from the emptiness of this...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazy glass: Yet in the temple thou dost him afford This glorious and transcendent place, To be a window, through thy grace. But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie, Making thy life to shine...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Church
… herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome, In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a...
