Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 23 – Spiritual Fellowship Love can never give an adequate account of itself; it is invariably a dealing with infinite values, and when we come to that we come to God. That is what we are doing now where true love is; can death do anything to alter it? No, indeed, it can but shatter… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 23 – Spiritual Fellowship
For this Christmas, for our Last Christmas, and especially for that final Christmas when we will sing in tune with heaven.
We live because Christ was born amongst us.
We can depart in peace because Christ came to live among us.
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 22 – Spiritual Fellowship Granted that time will heal most wounds, it still remains true that the deeper the nature the more there is to heal, and that there is something holy in the sorrow of wounded love. …..I do wish with all my heart that every mourner in the world… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 22 – Spiritual Fellowship
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 21 – The Dead For the dead we have always with us, being enshrined in our hearts; so that when we say the places that once knew them know them no more, we except one place that is consecrated for ever to their blessed remembrance, (Follen) Those who are gone you have. Those… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 21 – The Dead
The angel announces a saviour, a way of salvation, that transcends the old laws of punishment and revenge replacing it with the gentle healing touch from the hand of a baby.
Jesu is the ointment for our healing, the salve for our souls.
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 20 – The Dead Mourn not for her as gathered to the Past. Her past has power upon the coming years, And she herself, O mourner, will outlast Her dust, this marble, and all human tears. (Tennyson) I hate the black negation of the bier, And wish the dead, as happier… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 20 – The Dead
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 19 – Love and Death To the faithful, death is only the last best sacrament. However imperfectly, with whatever grievous failures, they have held their lives, they have not held them as their own; and neither terror nor dismay is in their hearts when the call comes to relinquish them. They know that… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 19 – Love and Death
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 18 – Dying Bring none of these; but let me be, While all around in silence lies, Moved to the window near, and see Once more, before my dying eyes, Bathed in the sacred dews of morn The wide aerial landscape spread The world which was ere I was born, The… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 18 – Dying
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 17 – The Child’s Death He did but float a little way, Adown the stream of time; With dreamy eyes watching the ripples play, Or listening to their chime. His slender sail Scarce felt the gale: He did but float a little way. And, putting to the shore, While yet ’twas… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 17 – The Child’s Death
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 16 – Nature leads us to Rest As a fond mother, when the day is o’er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led And leave his broken playthings on the floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 16 – Nature leads us to Rest
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