Lord, all the plans I tried are burned to ash and all the sighs I sighed are burned to ash and all the tears I cried are burned to ash and all the lies I lied are burned to ash; the finished bonfires of my old disgrace. And then you dig them over in your…
Receive this cross of ash upon your brow, Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross. The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands The very stones themselves would shout and sing If you could covenant to…
May you recognise in your life the presence, power and light of your soul. May you realise that you are never alone, that your soul, in its brightness and belonging, connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your own individuality and difference. May you realise that the shape…
I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Not borne on morning wings Of majesty, but I have set my feet Amidst the delicate and bladed wheat That springs triumphant in the furrowed sod. There do I dwell in weakness and in power; Not broken or divided, saith our God! In your strait garden…
I was not there. I did not dream my way up prayer-worn Temple steps as you did, Christ-Mother, that day. I was not there. I did not scan the gloom or clutch a hand for courage in the Temple waiting-room. I was not there. I did not hear the praise which ancient ones sang of…
They came, as called, according to the Law. Though they were poor and had to keep things simple, They moved in grace, in quietness, in awe, For God was coming with them to His temple. Amidst the outer court’s commercial bustle They’d waited hours, enduring shouts and shoves, Buyers and sellers, sensing one more hustle,…
The God who breathed this world alive And sustains it day by day Whose hands flung stars into space And controls our destiny Says,”Do not be afraid, for I am with you.” The God who filled the ocean depths And set tides on their way Who caused mountains to be raised up And rainbows to…
As the darkened pool is stilled It reflects the blue sky above So may my quiet mind reflect O God, your glory and your love As the sea glows in the moonlight Light of lights, come and shine Let my life reveal your light Until I reflect the light divine As the earth reflects the…
He will come like last leaf’s fall. One night when the November wind has flayed the trees to bone, and earth wakes choking on the mould, the soft shroud’s folding. He will come like frost, One morning when the shrinking earth opens on mist, to find itself arrested in the net of alien sword-set beauty.…
O come, O come, and be our God-with-us O long-sought With-ness for a world without O secret seed, O hidden spring of light. Come to us Wisdom, come unspoken Name Come Root, and Key, and King, and holy Flame, O quickened little wick so tightly curled, Be folded with us into time and place, Unfold…
