Month: March 2016
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My Alabaster Heart
based on: John 12:1-3 which reads: “Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary…
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Glory Gave Up
This the fourth is series of sonnet meditations on the season of Lent. In it I am considering the glory of God which St Paul says we fell short of in Romans 3. Humanity’s glory shines greatest in the earth In beauty like the flowers, in strength strong as stone;…
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I Saw a Crocus
“A man really ought to say, ‘The Resurrection happened two thousand years ago’ in the same spirit in which he says, ‘I saw a crocus yesterday.’ Because we know what is coming behind the crocus.” ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock I saw a crocus yesterday The purple petals…
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Peregrinos
With you I’ve walked down matrimony’s aisle, Ridden in a hearse’s funeral train reeling, Danced down in a vale on summer’s day while You wheeled round corners, walking for healing. And we press on walking, no choice but to follow Where the numbers take us correcting as we go. How…
Backward Mutters 