Peace

Peace

When will you ever, Peace, wilddove, shy wings shut, You round me roaming end, and under be my boughs? When, Peace, will you Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace...
Walk with God

Walk with God

The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fires By which the mighty process is maintained, Who sleeps not, is not weary; in whose sight Slow...
Climbing out of bed

Climbing out of bed

Teach me thy love to know; That this new light, which now I see, May both the work and workman show: Then by a sunbeam I will climb to thee.   George Herbert (1593-1633), Mattens.  
Good Friday

Good Friday

…The Carpenter had done his work well to sustain the carpenter’s burden; the cross an example of the power of art to transcend timber.   R.S. Thomas (1913-2000).