Timeless serenity

Timeless serenity

  God grant me the serenity, To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.   Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; Taking, as...
Build your ship of death

Build your ship of death

Have you built your ship of death? O, have you? O, build your ship of death, for you will need it.   D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930).
His birth and our death?

His birth and our death?

… Were we led all that way for birth or death? There was a birth, certainly, we had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, but had thought they were different; this birth was hard and bitter agony for us, like death, our death. We returned to our places,...
Undressed for a Deeper Life, my Love

Undressed for a Deeper Life, my Love

Well may this body poorer, feebler grow! It is undressing for its last sweet bed; But why should the soul, which death shall never know, Authority, and power, and memory shed? It is that love with absolute faith would wed: God takes the inmost garments off his child...
Love’s fire thou art

Love’s fire thou art

Love’s fire thou art, however cold I be, Nor heaven have I, nor place to lay my head, Nor home, but thee.   Christina Rossetti (1828-82).