Sunday, June 1, 2025
Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Awake My Heart with Gladness
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Fum Fum Fum
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
For All the Saints
Who Thee by faith
Thy name, O Jesus,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thou, Lord, their Captain
Thou, in the darkness drear,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
We feebly struggle,
Yet all are one in Thee,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
The saints triumphant
The King of Glory
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Through gates of pearl
in praise of Father,
Alleluia, Alleluia! --William Walsham How, 1864
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Old Glory at Another National Park
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Songs of Thankfulness & Praise
Friday, July 1, 2022
Glorious Old Glory
Here are some fairly recent photos of the US Flag flying around the Big Lake area in eastern Arizona:
Friday, April 1, 2022
An Easter Carol
For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.
Flash forth, thou Sun,
The rain is over and gone, its work is done.
Winter is past,
Sweet Spring is come at last, is come at last.
Bud, Fig and Vine,
Bud, Olive, fat with fruit and oil and wine*.
Break forth this morn
In roses, thou but yesterday a Thorn**.
Uplift thy head,
O pure white Lily through the Winter dead.
Beside your dams
Leap and rejoice, you merry-making Lambs.
All Herds and Flocks
Rejoice, all Beasts of thickets and of rocks.
Sing, Creatures, sing,
Angels and Men and Birds and everything.
All notes of Doves
Fill all our world: this is the time of loves.
-Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894)
**Compares the flowerless rose, all thorns "just yesterday", to the contrast between Good Friday, when the Lord died, to the blossom of His resurrection on Easter.
Friday, April 2, 2021
Easter Week
See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and gardens hail the spring;
Shaughs* and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing.
You, to whom your Maker granted
Powers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
Each his Easter tribute bring-
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds who build and sing.
--Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
*archaic term for small woods, thicket
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Ego Eimi