I Go Among Trees And Sit Still I go among trees and sit still.All my stirring becomes quietaround me like circles on water.My tasks...
If I Could Tell You Time will say nothing but I told you so,Time only knows the price we have to pay;If I could tell you I would let...
Song Of A Dream Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;...
Do It Anyway People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you...
The Celestial Fire Now an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a blazing fire -- a fire that devours fire;a fire that burns in...
The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;Nine...
This is what was bequeathed us ListenThis is what was bequeathed us:This earth the beloved leftAnd, leaving,Left to us. No other...
Alone Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one...
What to Remember When Waking In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,coming back to this life from the other,more...
Messenger My work is loving the world.Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird –equal seekers of sweetness.Here the quickening...
For Lent, 1966 It is my Lent to break my Lent,To eat when I would fast,To know when slender strength is spent,Take shelter from the...
Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened...
Pray For Peace Pray to whomever you kneel down to:Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross,his suffering face bent to...
Clear heart Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. —Psalm 51.10 Beloved,amid the clutter within...
Come and Journey Come and journey with a Saviour who has called us from our birth, who has washed us in the waters, and who loved us...
Impossibility The salt water in the swimming holesurrounded me last night saying,Trust yourself. They need you. Bring only love, the...
Today's Poem was submitted by Parishioner and Parish Councillor Susan Bansgrove: Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward Let mans Soule...
When sorrow comes When sorrow comes, let us accept it simply, as a part of life.Let the heart be open to pain; let it be stretched by...
Gethsemane The grass never sleeps.Or the roses.Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning. Jesus said, wait with...
The Way of Pain 1.For parents, the only wayis hard. We who give lifegive pain. There is no help.Yet we who give paingive love; by pain...
