by revd | Nov 14, 2024 | Our Father
‘Thou art a God that hidest Thyself’ (Isaiah 45:15) … Till Thou givest that sense beyond, To shew Thee that Thou art, and near, Let patience with her chastening wand Dispel the doubt and dry the tear; And lead me child-like by the hand If still in...
by revd | Apr 19, 2024 | Believers
The signal box sometimes feels like one of those invitation tests: go to the wilds, endure the emptiness of yourself and return reformed. Confront that which is most you: stray to the dark realm of your bruised heart and let the light in, let the grand voice of...
by revd | Feb 20, 2023 | Believers
The relation between us was silence; that and the feeling of each one being watched by the other… It had begun by my talking all of the time repeating the worn formulae of the churches in the belief that was prayer. Why does silence suggest disapproval? The...
by revd | Jan 14, 2023 | Jesus Christ
It is not clear that he can’t speak; who created languages but God? . . . We call him the dumb God with an effrontery beyond pardon. Whose silence so eloquent as his? What word so explosive as that one Palestinian word with the endlessness of its...
by revd | Apr 14, 2022 | Believers
To one kneeling down no word came, Only the wind’s song, saddening the lips Of the grave saints, rigid in glass; Or the dry whisper of unseen wings, Bats not angels, in the high roof. Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long And saw love in a dark crown Of thorns...
