Until I come devote yourself to the reading of scripture.
To exhortation , to teaching.
We seek the bigger more complex picture.
Always trying to understand, searching.

So we read every day.
To try and to be inspired
And this amazing book does so every day.
Our hope, our spirit is fired.

Do not neglect the gift you have.
Which was given to by prophesy.
This unique gift is our soul’s salve.
Launching us into spiritual immensity.

Practise these things .
Immerse yourself in these things.

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Learn to read scripture
Understand exhortation
And also teaching

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See 1 Timothy 4

Great Indeed.
We confess, is the mystery of his godliness.
In word and deed.
This thought, we can only bless.

This extraordinary mystery.
This unfathomable question.
Bestriding history.
Impossible of any expression.

What power
Or intent.
When will be the return’s hour
But he was and will be sent.

To redeem us.
To save us.

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He is great indeed
Godliness mystery
We cannot fathom

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See 1 Timothy 3

I will walk.
With blameless heart.
It is not enough just to talk.
Praying is the start.

I sing of mercy.
And justice.
Overcoming all controversy.
Rebutting injustice.

I was at a service in the Abbey.
All this history passing by.
A distant stained glass sun ray.
The tourists walking by.

The host was raised.
A small moment of calm seized.

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We sing of mercy
And with blameless heart we try
To say our p

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See Psalm 111

At that time standing by the cross.
Were his mother and his mother’s sister.
Now we in our dark dreams stand by the cross.
Thinking this man was my brother.

She is our mother.
Our sister
Our mother’s mother.
Our sister’s sister.

Her sorrow.
Her agony
Is our sorrow.
And our agony.

But she was yet to see her son live.
And one day we will know this for certain, he will for eternity live.

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Standing by the cross
Was his sad mother weeping
We also are there

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See John 19 : 25-27

Make a fiery serpent.
And put it on a pole.
Can we now repent.
To save our soul.

This hideous instrument of torture.
This blood stained cross.
Is now the intersection between past and future.
The beacon of hope, the end of loss.

On this piece of splintered wood.
The whole of history turns.
The repository of every questioning would or should.
The fire that eternally burns.

Did St Helena in 326 really find it.
But it really doesn’t matter if the splinter in the church is it.

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Is it truly here
Is this splinter from the cross
A matter of faith

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See Numbers 21 : 4b-9

No good tree bears bad fruit
Or again does a bad tree bear good fruit.
Let our voice not be mute.
So that faith can take root.

The good person out of his heart’s treasure produces good.
And the bad person out of his evil treasure produces evil.
This is our spiritual food.
This is what we know and feel.

Perelandra is by CS Lewis written.
Here evil invades planet Venus’ paradise.
And the fruit of our own  downfall must not be there eaten.
Self Will and knowledge, we hope, will not suffice.

Does good win in the end.
We must read and like life persevere to the end.

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If good trees produce
Good fruit and bad trees then
bad
Where does that leave us

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See Luke 6 : 43-49

Why do you see the speck that is in your brothers’s eye.
But do not notice the log that is your own eye.
How can you say , brother let me take the speck that is in your eye.
When you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye.

We are so judgmental.
So lacking in self awareness.
And all this is fatal.
To some sort of spiritual fitness.

The universe circles around us.
Instead of the next World.
Forgetting Jesus.
Locked into this World.

The beam remains in our eye.
The speck in the other’s eye.

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The speck in his eye
Is noticed and our own beam
Remains unnoticed

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See Luke 6 : 39-42

Blessed are those who weep now.
For you shall laugh.
I love this idea of hope in the future given now.
That whatever happens the Lord is there on our behalf.

Laughter is important.
We should enjoy this life.
So follow the hopeful spiritual scent.
Salvation is always there, rife.

Troubles come and go.
And usually they seem to come.
But of course they all eventually go.
They in retrospect are just another small bread crumb.

In heaven there is only laughter.
So there is no eternal disaster.

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Blessed those who weep
For they shall come soon to laugh
Or that’s what we hope

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See Luke 6 : 20-26

I trust in your merciful love.
Let my heart rejoice in your salvation.
For you are pure love.
Removing all temptation.

I will sing to the Lord.
Who has been bountiful with me.
He is the one true Lord.
Eternally, we pray, looking after you and me.

I was in the Museum of Man.
Apparently we all just a part of spontaneous evolution.
Man has no soul, he is just the latest man.
So a bad moral choice is not a temptation

I don’t know , I need to know more.
I just feel in my heart there is more.

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I trust in your love
Rejoicing in salvation
I am not an ape

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See psalm 13

What human being can discern the counsel of God.
Or can discern what the Lord wills.
Indeed who or why or where is God.
Who knows apart from love what he wills.

For the reasoning of mortals is worthless.
And our designs are likely to fail.
But why ask, why be anxious.
The body yes, but the soul cannot fail.

For a perishable body weighs down the soul.
And this earthly tent burdens a mind full of thoughts.
There later is joy, here is merely full of toil.
There later , the reward of the cross, here just naughts.

Here there is endless thinking.
There finally understanding.

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What is God’s counsel
Who can discern what he wills
Yet we will find out

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See Wisdom 9 : 13-18

You who were once alienated.
He has now reconciled.
No longer divided.
Nor resented.

He did this by his death.
In order to present you blameless.
To give you eternal breath.
Your soul perfect endless.

If you continue stable and steadfast.
Not shifting in the hope of the gospel.
You will last.
And all your fears dispel.

No longer fearful.
But hopeful.

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You once alienated
Now reconciled and hopeful
Now and for ever

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See Colossians 1 : 21-23

The Pharisees said, the disciples of John fast.
But yours eat and drink.
But what will last.
Let us think.

Jesus said can you make wedding guests fast.
While the bridegroom is with them.
They had asked.
And the right answer was given them.

We do not need to fast.
Jesus is with us.
Our faith will last.
He will never leave us.

What matters is what you do.
Not what comes through you.

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John’s disciples fast
Those of Jesus eat and drink
That is the right way

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See Luke 5 : 33-39

Asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will.
In all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
But we have just for a moment to be still.
Not fearing or worrying but hoping.

Master we toiled all night.
And took nothing.
Sometimes we just have to keep up the fight.
Even if time and again we receive nothing.

They enclosed a large number of fish.
And their nets were breaking.
If we keep trying we can get out wish,
And keep succeeding.

The Lord is not on the boat with us.
But he still is with us.

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We toiled all the night
And yet still we caught nothing
But then the Lord came

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See de Colossians 9 : 1-14 and Luke 5: 1–11

From the moment we heard.
We have not ceased to pray for you.
With nothing feared.
We will not forget you.

If we put God at the centre of everything.
All falls into true perspective.
There need be no fearing.
We know all is relative.

What does anything matter.
It’s a drop compared to that great truth,
We cast off every fetter.
From all fears we can stand aloof.

God is here.
Banish all fear.

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For from this moment
We’ve not ceased to pray for you
That’s our destiny

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See Colossians 1 : 9- 14

The spirit of the Lord is upon me.
To proclaim good news to the poor.
To proclaim liberty to the captives he sent me.
To all of us even though we are in spirit all too poor.

And recovering of sight to the blind.
To set at liberty those who are oppressed.
But belief must be enshrined.
The truth must be faced.

To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.
For all of us, whoever we are.
Our saviour.
Who is both close, personal and universally far.

Will we listen to the scroll.
Are we prepared to toil.

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Here’s the Lord’s spirit
It is upon our Jesus
And setting us free

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See Luke 4 : 16-30

Perform your tasks in meekness.
Then you will be loved by those whom God accepts.
Maybe we are just called to witness.
Even  if we are among the rejects.

I am at the Chapelle Notre Dame de Grace.
With long views over the Seine.
The priest in his sermon stands to the Virgin face to face.
Proclaiming her ever lasting reign.

He worships her so powerfully
With so much charity.
We are all rent spiritually.
Understanding our destiny.

She is the mother over all.
Of us all.

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Perform tasks meekly
Loved by those whom God accepts
That is your witness

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See Sirach 3 : 17- 18

From the one who had not.
Even what he had will be taken away.
How do we untie life’s difficult knot.
We ponder , we pray but who can say.

The feast day of Saint Jeanne Jugan
Is celebrated today.
The founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor Han a plan.
Caring for the poor and infirm wherever they lay.

I am at her Cancale Maison Natale.
In her day a tiny hovel.
Devoid of furniture but clean not “sale.”
Hardly anything level.

She started with nothing.
She gave away everything.

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The one who had not
What’s his is taken away
So we just must care

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See Matthew 25: 14-30

The Lord is king.
Let earth rejoice.
Let us sing.
And find our true voice.

Let the many islands be glad.
Justice and right are the foundation of his throne.
There is no need to be sad.
Or indeed ever to be alone.

The mountains melt like wax.
Before the face of the Lord of all the earth.
We need only fear our faith being lax.
In God’s love there can be no dearth.

The skies proclaim his justice.
All peoples see his glory and fitness.

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The Lord is our King
The many islands are glad.
Mountains melt like wax

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See Psalm 97

To your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday.
Come and gone like a watch in the night.
Let us be open to a new day.
And a new dawning light.

I am looking towards Mont St Michel.
Crystal clear across the estuary.
I almost feel I can hear it’s calling bell.
The evening is shades of pink and distant grey.

But what a monument to faith’s call.
Standing proud for much more than any century.
We will not lose heart if it does not fall.
A place of prayer and sanctuary.

This is not just a place for the tourist season .
It is a place of hope and reason.

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Just a thousand years
Are for you a nighttime watch
Come and gone so soon

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See Psalm 90

If I take wings of the dawn.
Or dwell at the sea’s furthest end.
Even there your hand would lead me to a new dawn.
Your right hand would hold me fast to the end.

Dying is like walking into the sea over sharp pebbles.
And then deliciously floating weightless.
But a thousand times more as the dying body rebels.
Then the soul is set free at last bodyless.

I dread walking back from the sea.
Stumbling over an unseen rock.
But at death the soul is forever set free.
The gates of heaven unlock.

The night shall be as the day is bright.
All will be transcendent celestial light.

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I walk into sea.
Stumbling over hidden stones
Then sea sets me free

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See Psalm 139

You blind Pharisee first clean the inside of the cup and the plate.
That the outside may also be clean.
At this spiritual feast are we going to be late.
Have we the truth through unknowing clouds seen.

As I sat through Mass wondering.
Nothing seemed believable.
Once again with this liturgy I was doubting.
I even questioned the bible.

We go through this dry period.
All seems exaggerated.
Human made.
Even manafactured.

But then I read at the back the explanation .
Mais qui Donc est Jesus? And  all seemed reason.

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Clean the cup’s inside
The outside Will then come clean
That’s what we must do

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See Matthew 23 : 23-26

Our gospel came to you not only in word.
But in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Do we listen even though we have heard.
And seek to ascend our spiritual turret.

We worry so much about death.
But it is just the freeing of the soul from the body.
A new galvanised spiritual breath.
We just enter heavens’s lobby.

Only our body dies.
It decays.
The soul flies.
Just the end of a passing phase.

No need to worry
Here is nothing scary.

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The soul does not die
For it has nothing to die
It is just spirit

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See 1 Thessalonians