by revd | Nov 17, 2023 | Grace of God
To what serves mortal beauty? Dangerous; does set dancing blood…. What do then? How meet beauty? Merely meet it; own, home at heart, heaven’s sweet gift; then leave, let that alone, Yea, wish that though, wish all, God’s better beauty, grace....
by revd | Jun 15, 2022 | Glory
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? ‘For beauty,’ I replied. ‘And I for truth, – the two are one; We brethren are,’ he said. And so,...
by revd | May 5, 2022 | Jesus Christ
…. I bet my life on beauty, truth, And love! Not abstract, but incarnate truth; Not beauty’s passing shadow, but its self, Its very self made flesh – love realized. I bet my life on Christ, Christ crucified. Behold your God! My soul cries out. He hangs, Serenely...
by revd | Apr 28, 2022 | Christ-likeness
My road calls me, lures me West, east, south and north; Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth. To add more miles to the tally Of grey miles left behind, In quest of that one beauty God put me here to find. John Masefield...
by revd | Feb 25, 2022 | Bible
For Jesus, who is all truthfulness, is hidden there (in Holy Writ), wound in a silken veil of its beautiful words where he may not be known or experienced except with a pure heart. This is simply because truthfulness does not reveal itself to enemies, but only to...
