My Morning Star

My Morning Star

O Christ, our morning star, Splendour of light eternal, Shining with the glory of the rainbow. Come and waken us From the greyness of our apathy, And renew in us Your gift of hope.   Venerable Bede...
Christmas Check Out

Christmas Check Out

“I’m not looking forward to Christmas,”   The lass on the store check-out cries, Pinging the goods on the rumbling belt – The bread, and the wine, and the pies. I watch, as I stand in the fidgety queue As the lassie enlightens us all....
Flood our Hearts

Flood our Hearts

God of time and God eternal, God beyond millennia; God whose fingerprints reveal you In the atom and the stars:           Flood our hearts with hope and wonder,           Fill us with your healing love.   God, in Jesus, you have lived life, Shared constraints of...
Success

Success

I’m Whatever is foreseen in joy Must be lived out from day to day. Vision held open in the dark By our ten thousand days of work. Harvest will fill the barn; for that The hand must ache, the face must sweat.   And yet no leaf or grain is filled By work of ours; the...
The way into church!

The way into church!

I see a door, a multitude near by, In creed and quarrel, sure disciples all! Gladly they would, they say, enter the hall, But cannot, the stone threshold is so high….   But see, one comes; he listens to the voice; Careful he wipes his weary dusty feet! The...