Far from relying on any power of my own.
I came among you in great fear and trembling.
If we have faith, it is given to us merely as a loan.
It is a doorway into the light coming and going.

And if faith is not a difficulty be sure there is always another adversity.
St Aidan was at the start beset with difficulties.
But he triumphed against his followers perversity.
He found that every difficulty led to new opportunities.

Those tides at Lindisfarne you never forget.
They sigh and beat against that Holy Island.
The tide rises and falls like our faith lost and reset.
But remember these men whose words laid a foundation stone of England.

And we on that wind swept holy place.
Can find echoes of zeal to help in our own race.