by revd | Apr 12, 2022 | Believers
In darkness the poet needs a window ‘You speak as though No sunlight ever surprised the mind Groping on its cloudy path.’ ‘Sunlight’s a thing that needs a window Before it enters a dark room. Windows don’t happen.’ So two old poets,...
by revd | Apr 12, 2022 | Mission
Grandfather sits and begins breakfast, Staring into is coffee cup…. He is a Calvinist to be sure, sound and wise if settled in his ways. He believes in hell, and firmly in damnation, but will not call it down. He sees himself growing out of this world: trying...
by revd | Apr 12, 2022 | Moral Justice
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true, because we have dreamed too little, when we have arrived safely, because we sailed too close to the shore....
by revd | Apr 12, 2022 | Moral Justice
Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand. Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), In Memoriam,
by revd | Apr 12, 2022 | Humankind
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells ; Selves – goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his...
