15 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in The UK
Wealth dies
kinsmen die
a man dies likewise himself;
but fame dies never
for him who gets good fame:Wealth dies
kinsmen die
a man dies likewise himself:
I know one thing
that never dies
the verdict on each man dead.from the Viking collection known as Hamaval 9th century
22 Monday Apr 2013
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
08 Friday Mar 2013
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dust, Lent, Quotes, T S Elliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
We don’t fear death we fear that no one will notice our absence that we will disappear without a trace.T S Elliot
06 Monday Aug 2012
Posted in Thoughts on God
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
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Dear Lord Jesus, we shall have this day only once; before it is gone, help us to do all the good we can, so that today is not a wasted day.
Stephen Grellet
19 Thursday Jul 2012
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Sermons: every week another one hanging around your neck like a penance, supporting the traditional assumption, from the days when the priest was the only person in the village ho could read, that you could stand up there in the pulpit having universal truths channelled through you, when all you really had were questions.
Merrliy Watkins in A Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman
07 Saturday Jul 2012
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them.
Gallilao
25 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Quotes
At a date which is uncertain this month in 1624 George Fox was born, he was to become the founder of the Quakers and wrote these words, which seem to fit in so well with the lectionary at the moment I can’t help wondering if this letter was written around a similar lectionary period.
All dear Friends everywhere, who have no helper but the Lord, who is your strength and your life, let your cries and prayers be to him, who with his eternal power has kept your heads above all waters and storms. Let none go out of their habitations in the stormy time of the night, those whose habitation is the Lord, the Seed, Christ Jesus. In this seed you will see the bright and morning Star appear which will expel the night of darkness, by which morning Star you will come to the everlasting Day which was before night was. So everyone feel this bright morning Star in your hearts, there to expel the darkness.
Yesterday the lectionary led us to hear of Jesus calming the storm and here we are reminded of who it is who has the power to keep our heads above, not just a storm, but all storms and waters. The storms and waters that can so easily overcome us, darken our lives and cast deep shadows on our walk with Christ.
Two weeks ago the lectionary gave us the parable of the mustard seed, the Kingdom of God being likened unto it, while here George Fox calls Christ himself the Seed. I have never knowingly come across this idea before, that Christ himself is the Seed and I am not sure quite how I feel about it. Is Christ the Seed, the seed of faith, the seed of the Kingdom, the seed of something else? Maybe following on from my own post last week, Christ could be seen as the seed of spirituality, lots more to think upon.
27 Monday Feb 2012
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What good would it do if truth stood before us, cold and naked, not caring whether we recognised her or not, and producing in us a shudder of fear rather than a trusting devotion?
The Journals Of Kierkegaard translated by Alexander Dru
