tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005552179618352542024-03-18T03:03:53.484+00:00Grace NotesWelcome.
These are some of the attempts at verse that I have made over the years. I trust that they are to the glory of the Lord Jesus - and that putting them here is to His glory too.
I have now posted most that I have written at least once but continue in case a new audience finds new blessing. Occasionally I throw in some other verse.
Comment are welcome.David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.comBlogger3229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-70383098155891309492024-03-07T21:18:00.000+00:002024-03-07T21:18:05.449+00:00COMING ONE<p><br /></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KmYV3IfLlJhVD_k9JzAjf6fUdaTbEf7SqnZuDR_aVPEdVRWVhKbjzwx363dMoKzvvAUD19Ug560gfXJ6WcSMY7JWrUbLaL1aAiiwlbm9UCu4xV4LPdExMNd2_h5F3a2pdUYJCoNUIYY27uW_JAN9i6uI2kEQQZbcIvfv4GR9UhOPkhgZY6G8w9mpCHX8/s4032/IMG_5194.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KmYV3IfLlJhVD_k9JzAjf6fUdaTbEf7SqnZuDR_aVPEdVRWVhKbjzwx363dMoKzvvAUD19Ug560gfXJ6WcSMY7JWrUbLaL1aAiiwlbm9UCu4xV4LPdExMNd2_h5F3a2pdUYJCoNUIYY27uW_JAN9i6uI2kEQQZbcIvfv4GR9UhOPkhgZY6G8w9mpCHX8/s320/IMG_5194.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2sAKTodhOWoAQ-eKCfI7RryYHZURIwflR8TchnS5n84mE3T1ZkJZXCjY_sdRvdQpV7rAnV6e9fI0IRcJFemX1FPEkMH7pDP8N0m7YV2-hHkW-n1XcZnDNL6s_9bCpoEeFPvenT08ettR75VVyQ_hb0a882X9i1N67lKMkYJeb3U7Vs7YQt0BowA_4Qmq9/s4032/IMG_5193.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2sAKTodhOWoAQ-eKCfI7RryYHZURIwflR8TchnS5n84mE3T1ZkJZXCjY_sdRvdQpV7rAnV6e9fI0IRcJFemX1FPEkMH7pDP8N0m7YV2-hHkW-n1XcZnDNL6s_9bCpoEeFPvenT08ettR75VVyQ_hb0a882X9i1N67lKMkYJeb3U7Vs7YQt0BowA_4Qmq9/s320/IMG_5193.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYmxkbeV-3ua0mS6F8axZvrCOIO8eFW9ShJEaJ7Wg3CZ0-aqAtGkaBJ3P2rIs6wSmxa8VO5kkhR-qNAhm7Pm4Z8MwTzyhA_oFjmXJDYs3cahq4eEPg5YLKvhiJm5_w5XMBTQxSrhnWiJmasqhZM7u79rOOY-s0QLW9xvoVVfFJed6JUMQRXKyGndZrGqOQ/s4032/IMG_5182.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYmxkbeV-3ua0mS6F8axZvrCOIO8eFW9ShJEaJ7Wg3CZ0-aqAtGkaBJ3P2rIs6wSmxa8VO5kkhR-qNAhm7Pm4Z8MwTzyhA_oFjmXJDYs3cahq4eEPg5YLKvhiJm5_w5XMBTQxSrhnWiJmasqhZM7u79rOOY-s0QLW9xvoVVfFJed6JUMQRXKyGndZrGqOQ/s320/IMG_5182.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /></i><br /><br /><i>(Mary)</i><br />A paean,<br />Eruption of soul and spirit,<br />Touching the King.<br /><br /><i>(Zacharias)</i><br />
</span><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bursting from silence</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">
I prophesy the Coming One,<br />
The Day Spring.<br />
<br />
<i>(Joseph)</i><br />
Stolid, a craftsman, why<br />
Choose me as trustee of<br />
The Holy Thing?<br />
<br />
<i>(Magi)</i><br />
Though the weather cuts<br />
And stones abrade,<br />
Nettles and thorns sting<br />
<br />
We glory in our pilgrimage<br />
More than in ease<br />
Or governing<br />
<br />
Glad to be encumbered ‑ <br />
Gold, frankincense and myrrh ‑ <br />
By gifts we bring.<br />
<br />
<i>(Shepherd)</i><br />
More than an angel<br />
Redeemed, directed, lightened,<br />
I now can sing. <br />
<!--[endif]--></span></div>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-34837726642929776892024-03-03T13:44:00.004+00:002024-03-03T13:44:57.288+00:00DAVID<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Pre-eminently David was a shepherd:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">One with a heart his flock could all rely on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He was no hireling but prepared to jeopard</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">His life to fight against the bear or lion</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To lead his flock or lead his men to Zion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But the Good Shepherd, Jesus, supersedes:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In love He suffered and in grace He leads.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Into the valley, humble yet defiant,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Confident in the way Jehovah led,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">David went down to battle with the giant:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A skilful sling-stone smote Goliath dead</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And David carried off his severed head.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Through greater depths and through exceeding woe</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lord has quelled a more injurious foe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Rejected and despised, a wanderer,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">David found refuge in Adullam's cave;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And needy souls who gathered to him there</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because their debts were great or needs were grave</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Found that he had ability to save:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Christ, who had once no place to lay His head,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is Saviour now as risen from the dead.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As God's anointed David had dominion</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That ranged from the Euphrates to the Sea;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Hundreds of judgments hung on his opinion,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Myriads of minions hung on his decree</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While Israel was glorious and free.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But Christ will shoulder just administration</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As King of every people, tribe and nation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To build the house of God was his desire</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And under God he was its architect;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was most worthy that he should aspire</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To serve God in a place he would erect</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But God refused to give his will effect.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Only through Christ could God acquire a place</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To dwell with men in righteousness and grace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">David went in to sit before the ark</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To hear Jehovah in complacency;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He laid aside his realm's and household's cark</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And heard the promise God had to convey:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sustained by this he rose and went his way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But in God's presence our High Priest remains – </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All things by love and vigour He sustains.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Whether the waters by his feet were calm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Or he was bruised by torrents of oppression</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From each experience David formed a psalm.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He raised a hymn to God through his confession</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And found a song as carried through depression.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But Christ now leads a heavenly company</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Surrounding Him to praise eternally. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEievmA-ToaA2iIlOexEZmfn876hR85BzfhvihP5bmCRQNHEWDahJJ4BM5HtvfYPIwPhqp7lRnIB9ThmMmTbcZ3jFHBBQNL62kg7nm2VGyCo-h-dX9U1Zfrmhu2cqIt6f4wjrvxB2hNNw6najF49vT-2ghlztvET5XYuhKvrIHXVUT-O0Mh5o2MESiXVTCtA/s4032/IMG_5179.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpYLv3EQ4LZPQyCEpEDJuZGBzPlQ3X1bCsm1uDEOPbr7580X3g1DYH8Yg9bTgvcQfRZ_UQoe4MBPGMzty_hUTJmRmXcWZEXrMZMuTFHpwCVfpPxIF7YM-CRDHhTKePtGbvwJ0nxhBjlTRfJWG0Rnr5hAng0ldVfnJtQ58lxUAiXkoqCXaWyjosB2SazGRQ/s320/IMG_5158.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3JP-mQEzXDTZbybJA-Zqp1E2SrC3lshZZHLInnf6GkLCEEIZQxZ7qgqiHU6av7FyMeBCXxKQH8svbVBgj8ZXbn9Km4Rk9jNFpaBRO82NdFiZh3y-Tzyl5N6qnwbdC1_ZgGaPMSBvfoSJktUEZXQ38Pwxe1fjWgo4yt2MzN1YSKGX79byy-2fjZAkTfY7/s4032/IMG_5160.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3JP-mQEzXDTZbybJA-Zqp1E2SrC3lshZZHLInnf6GkLCEEIZQxZ7qgqiHU6av7FyMeBCXxKQH8svbVBgj8ZXbn9Km4Rk9jNFpaBRO82NdFiZh3y-Tzyl5N6qnwbdC1_ZgGaPMSBvfoSJktUEZXQ38Pwxe1fjWgo4yt2MzN1YSKGX79byy-2fjZAkTfY7/s320/IMG_5160.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking towards the Pentland Hills</span></span></div><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><p><span><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></span></p>(Genesis 32:31, Hosea 12:4)</i></span><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">
<br />
I had the vigour of my prime<br />
On which I could rely<br />
In all my ventures till the time<br />
The angel touched my thigh.<br />
<br />
All things I gathered to my will<br />
Whether by truth or lie – <br />
I cheated shamelessly until<br />
The angel touched my thigh.<br />
<br />
I hobble forward like a tramp<br />
Despite the dawning sky<br />
Since, as I felt his bitter cramp,<br />
The angel touched my thigh.<br />
<br />
But I can garner richly now<br />
A bountiful supply<br />
And gladly testify of how<br />
The angel touched my thigh.<br />
<br />
I hold the dignity of prince<br />
For that is God's reply<br />
To all this world's discomforts since<br />
The angel touched my thigh.<br />
<br />
My composition which God taught<br />
Could in no part apply<br />
Nor could I freely bless had not<br />
The angel touched my thigh.<br />
<br />
Though once this lameness made me sad<br />
God helps me so that I<br />
Worship before Him and am glad<br />
The angel touched my thigh. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <br /></span>
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<!--[endif]--></div>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-36166455409814605432024-02-20T20:06:00.006+00:002024-02-20T20:07:10.453+00:00PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST (G)<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I</span></span></p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">
<br />
Holinesse on the head,<br />
Light and perfections on the breast<br />
Harmonious bells below, raising the dead<br />
To lead them into life and rest:<br />
Thus are true Aarons drest.<br />
<br />
Profanenesse in my head,<br />
Defects and darkness in my breast,<br />
A noise of passions ringing me for dead<br />
Unto a place where is no rest:<br />
Poore priest thus am I drest.<br />
<br />
Onely another head<br />
I have, another heart and breast<br />
Another musick, making live not dead<br />
Without whom I could have no rest:<br />
In Him I am well drest.<br />
<br />
Christ is my onely head,<br />
My alone onely heart and breast<br />
My only musick, striking me ev'n dead;<br />
That to the old man I may rest<br />
And be in Him new drest.<br />
<br />
So holy in the head,<br />
Perfect and light in my deare breast<br />
My doctrine tun'd by Christ (who is not dead,<br />
But lives in me while I do rest)<br />
Come people; Aaron's drest.<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
Not my words, for words merely mine<br />
Could attain no value in God's <br />
Environment; only the Word<br />
Could institute right words; the Son<br />
Be language that is right; the Christ<br />
Give anointed praise. Yet I must<br />
Give voice - and others' cadences<br />
Meld with my own. And if your heart<br />
Is right with mine you can sing words<br />
Not mine, but more than mine - and ours:<br />
<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
Praise the One who is Creator,<br />
Heaven's and earth's Originator<br />
Yet come near as Mediator<br />
Between God and man.<br />
<br />
Praise the Christ who as a stranger<br />
Once was cradled in a manger,<br />
Come in flesh to be the changer<br />
Of the course of time.<br />
<br />
Praise the Man who here was sowing<br />
Seed from which good seed is growing<br />
In abundance overflowing<br />
To the Father's joy<br />
<br />
Praise the Shepherd who has sought us:<br />
With His precious blood He bought us,<br />
With His tender arms he brought us<br />
Back into His fold.<br />
<br />
Praise the Victor who invaded<br />
Realms where Satan's might pervaded;<br />
Now no power we are persuaded<br />
Separates from Him.<br />
<br />
Praise the Man who God perfected<br />
For the work which He effected <br />
Now He leads the Sons selected<br />
To a glorious sphere.<br />
<br />
Praise the Firstborn of creation<br />
End of all man's perturbation<br />
Bringing reconciliation<br />
As the Prince of Peace.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
22/4/94</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
(This attempt towards autobiography contains poems from earlier periods, this
being appropriate to my objective. AI, DI, DIII, EI & FI were previously
poems in their own right; DII was a fragment which needed a setting; GI is, of
course, by George Herbert. The poet of AIII is GMB.)</span></span><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And further: I had the concept of a archetypical village with the seven characters the chief, the shepherd, the peasant, the soldier, the tramp, the poet and the priest in it. I have used this - varied, so that the chief could be a king, for example, as a basis for poems around the time this was written. I think I'll follow up with other examples of this.</span></div><div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAphusBsWT8SHVsTX_wUw7_znGEevFp9BkGL9JJWhaFlO_198cF4E12JEfCAs6EsO0KjmhB3A86IBjX2ju_aqML1AHFkW5kFkcL6jQ5M1BBS-ZjUtnAVUO_HXboaCA8NXcccd7UyQLz2_E5m67Ep6mqh2Z2q4R00h-rTUBsOh0RAEMFZzGu9A28fbb8nEq/s4032/IMG_5150.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAphusBsWT8SHVsTX_wUw7_znGEevFp9BkGL9JJWhaFlO_198cF4E12JEfCAs6EsO0KjmhB3A86IBjX2ju_aqML1AHFkW5kFkcL6jQ5M1BBS-ZjUtnAVUO_HXboaCA8NXcccd7UyQLz2_E5m67Ep6mqh2Z2q4R00h-rTUBsOh0RAEMFZzGu9A28fbb8nEq/s320/IMG_5150.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9jB5SerTovw4GegzoXDKmvtTPmf1rhZeTc5XMsphLJFoJyUkJIZJfzxwVn5JY7jX4HIeTTtgDKv5FNvmSljPI8D8NR978Kkx5A0N2ER135o9iTYeGv9XUbQddAIQo36_zsPcA66VTy-zpkNnuFwZUGnxhNb1JDDKVW0JCYqhQkXd_BV4PRGN9_7uYfEx/s320/IMG_4324.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> On the Pentland Hills</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> I<br />
<br />
Around us are our tender flock<br />
Within this howling wilderness;<br />
Under the shadow of the Rock<br />
Care for them with me, Shepherdess.<br />
<br />
As shepherds must we'll guide their feet<br />
Amid the desert's brokenness<br />
To where the gentle grass is sweet:<br />
Care for them with me, Shepherdess.<br />
<br />
We'll keep them near the water's flow<br />
Whilst all around is barrenness;<br />
While by is glassy streams they grow<br />
Care for them with me, Shepherdess.<br />
<br />
Teach me, as Rachel must have taught<br />
Jacob, to heed their tenderness<br />
In case the lambs are overwrought:<br />
Care for them with me, Shepherdess.<br />
<br />
A greater Shepherd guides above<br />
Our ignorance and bruckleness;<br />
Under the shelter of His love<br />
Care for them with me, Shepherdess.<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
The shepherd's skill<br />
Moving from man to dog<br />
From dog to sheep<br />
Moves at a level subtler and more
deep<br />
Than that of one who carves a log,<br />
Or sews a frill:<br />
Instincts are thirled to will.<br />
<br />
The fisherman<br />
Must read both sea and sky<br />
To sense his way<br />
Between where currents sport and
fishes play.<br />
Wave-borne lest he wave-swamped should
die<br />
Instinct he can<br />
Enfold a vivid cran. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(A cran is a measure of fresh herring)</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;">
The poet folds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Images to his mind</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Herded by tropes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Into the verse that fabricates his
hopes:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Or trawls in deeps to find</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Silvers and golds</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Live in swamped vessel holds.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> III</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;">
No, I am not ashamed</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Of not being sailor or soldier:</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
These have no claim on</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
My genes. But can salt wind</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
And water, silver of fish</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
And their gut stench, screech</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Of gulls, and wave voices</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Inveigle themselves within</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Chromosomes? Their homes abutted</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
On the North Sea, my forebears</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Enfolded a living from it by</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Dull courage of necessity,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Harsh days and long nights,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Sea burials. Widows', wives'</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
And mothers' untold fears</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Rubbed into the family psyche.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
His mother dreading the loss</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Of all her men, my grandfather</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Abandoned the sea (and the boat</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
He had named the "Glad Tidings")</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Yet spent his days with fish.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
My father learned to handle them</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Deftly. But to me sea</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Or fish are alien. Of that </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
Unravelling, I am ashamed.</span></span><br />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br />
<!--[endif]--></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">(But don't lay any blame to the shepherdess.)</span></div><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-28097034263249253342024-02-06T21:41:00.003+00:002024-02-06T21:41:52.254+00:00PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST (E)<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> I</span></p><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">
<br />
When first I found Africa<br />
Missionaries dared The Dark Continent:<br />
Livingstone, Moffat, Mackay.<br />
<br />
Hence I saw slavery;<br />
Africa, a vast stank<br />
The Americas drained.<br />
<br />
Powerless I discovered<br />
Cultured tribes<br />
Thirled to the Boer's want.<br />
<br />
Here be great beasts <br />
Lazing lions, gangling giraffes<br />
Locust hordes of gnus.<br />
<br />
In jungled hills, next<br />
In gentle grandeur<br />
Mountain gorillas stravaiged.<br />
<br />
Recently I came on<br />
Brasses from Benin<br />
Bold in their figuration.<br />
<br />
"There is all Africa,"<br />
Sir Thomas Browne affirms<br />
“And her prodigies in us”.<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
Perhaps no great adventures, but we went<br />
Upon the "Claymore" to the Western Isles;<br />
In the old escort timidly we bent<br />
To Applecross for clouded haunting miles.<br />
We stumbled the Five Sisters of Kintail<br />
And saw Skye mountains crag the sunset's glow;<br />
And through your leadership I did not fail<br />
The sgurrs and stucs that loom above Glencoe.<br />
<br />
Exploring ethics and philosophy,<br />
Discussing truths of Christianity<br />
And girls we rambled on without an end<br />
Finding that it was good to have a friend.<br />
<br />
Till as my Best Man finally you sent your<br />
Old friend upon a more exciting venture.<br />
<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
The Laird's face<br />
Is altogether too big for me;<br />
The mask wobbles on my brow.<br />
<br />
The peasant mask<br />
Is broad on my cheeks<br />
Tight on my cranium.<br />
<br />
The shepherd's tender smile<br />
Fits my lips<br />
Seldom.<br />
<br />
My lines do not yet<br />
Fit the gnarled visage <br />
Of the tramp.<br />
<br />
But the poet's mask<br />
Most comfortably<br />
Conforms to me.<br />
<br />
Preposterous<br />
For a priest<br />
To hide within a mask.<br />
<br />
Thus I attempt to explore<br />
The space<br />
Between the mask and face.</span></span><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7o5glPZLWhISEGmnRgxVFny2rgpCnkf-dSykQ-6rdLoCNn0VIIWuLXnsd9VmYuWd-ZbhC_QgGUZH4TUsJXkWBiPKA-eIqkp9EgqG7DlYYL1ATje-b0Nmmok8npqQqiJEPcduuYYStQfAQVp5q7vR9-9N-Sna1Hkp4LNH2jpz3Q5SG2hq8wsUU9EtDpqNw/s4032/IMG_4278.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7o5glPZLWhISEGmnRgxVFny2rgpCnkf-dSykQ-6rdLoCNn0VIIWuLXnsd9VmYuWd-ZbhC_QgGUZH4TUsJXkWBiPKA-eIqkp9EgqG7DlYYL1ATje-b0Nmmok8npqQqiJEPcduuYYStQfAQVp5q7vR9-9N-Sna1Hkp4LNH2jpz3Q5SG2hq8wsUU9EtDpqNw/s320/IMG_4278.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> I<br />
<br />
If I have looked at your stooped back<br />
And your tense muscles (naming them thews)<br />
The sunlight blond on your hair<br />
And the green sprouting of your virile crops <br />
Praising them, forgetting the runnels of sweat<br />
Stinking in your armpits, the honed wind<br />
Nailing your skin, the worms of decay<br />
Coursing up through your limbs, loneliness<br />
The hawk hovering over your shoulder<br />
Preparing to stoop, prying, forgive me <br />
I am a man; and remember yourself<br />
That crabbed fingers and rounded shoulders,<br />
Fumes in the lungs, halter on the heart,<br />
Attend your dream. At least my <br />
Dream is noble. Your life is harshness<br />
And your dream luxuriant decay.<br />
<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
When I consider the poets I have loved<br />
This I discover is their common element:<br />
Soil. Whether Mackay Brown's patchwork,<br />
Drudgings among stones, furrows pages<br />
To be tuned through station of the year to harvest;<br />
Thomas, amid his peasant parishioners battling<br />
Doggedly against the tilth that bore them,<br />
Longs to absorb them; Heaney's diggings,<br />
Peat embruing to constitute bog people;<br />
Rowe's more exotic peasants stolid<br />
As the tractor mangles their world; or the one<br />
Poem I know of Ogston's celebrating<br />
The crofter's sordid defeat, soil<br />
Is their material. I have enjoyed reading also<br />
Part understood volumes on geomorphology:<br />
Glacier or flood sculpting clay or rock.<br />
Yet there are romantic touches to my<br />
Love of their works for the soil itself<br />
I handle only in a little loved garden:<br />
Not that the peasant loved his land,<br />
A harsh mistress rooting age into his limbs.<br />
Soil, tilth, peat or clay:<br />
This is the word I have shunned: Earth.<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
The vital water, silting and moistening,<br />
Compounds the good ground.<br />
<br />
The fecund seed, broadcast on the earth<br />
Clung in the good ground.<br />
<br />
The thievish birds jibbed at the nets<br />
Shielding the good ground.<br />
<br />
Roots writhed down, toward the procreant water<br />
Imbuing the good ground.<br />
<br />
Toward the sun sprouts pullulate<br />
Out from the good ground.<br />
<br />
Master, garner the mellow fruit<br />
From your good ground.<br /></span>
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<br />
Well, they made him a "Group Leader"<br />
Or, in grander modes, a "Group
Manager" <br />
The nearest he got to "Laird".<br />
<br />
But he did the duties "well" <br />
Some said "very well" but argued he did<br />
Too much of the work himself.<br />
<br />
If ever they marked him as "fitted"<br />
For a higher grade they ensured<br />
"Well fitted" was the required mark.<br />
<br />
As he became sardonic<br />
They decanted him from groups to<br />
An asylum for hardened cynics.<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
If you should work in wood to reconstruct your<br />
Dismantled wardrobe, mend a gate, or make<br />
A stool, disorder would attend your structure,<br />
Things fall apart, breadths vanish by mistake.<br />
<br />
If you should work with paint its varied thickness,<br />
Shirt dabblings, sprays, propensities to chaos<br />
Might show the Id in some repressive sickness;<br />
A poltergeist might think you framed his naos.<br />
<br />
Lawnmowers burn out; wires break and fuses blow:<br />
Tyres you are blowing up deflate instead;<br />
You cure locks worse; warped plumbings overflow;<br />
The headboard slants and wobbles on the bed.<br />
<br />
Words only find me an effective warder,<br />
Framed by me into one essay at order.<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
Unarranged, the sensations<br />
Suck by my senses to<br />
My "faulty sensory perception".<br />
<br />
Within, further confusion,<br />
The sense of humour<br />
Disarranging.<br />
<br />
From the core<br />
The sense of sny<br />
Deranged.<br />
<br />
O wretched man that I am!<br />
Who shall deliver me<br />
From this body of death?<br />
<br />
If what I need is a Deliverer<br />
What I gain also<br />
Is a Master.<br />
<br />
If what I need is an Escape<br />
What I gain<br />
Is also a Lord.<br />
<br />
If what I need is a Resource<br />
What I have<br />
Is a Head also.</span><br />
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It is specially associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert" target="_blank">Cuthbert</a>.<p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-90875801818227105152024-01-23T21:58:00.002+00:002024-01-23T21:58:43.250+00:00PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST (B)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHOvnBaEC8rAVWi6-PHzRjuAtWjx0sKrAGZJ-gTxAPsogTaKVsy2lDoZ7cbZMMsDIfBSWeJ-IkfbHV6JZaPq8xdVI59sc6bPl85P55MoptkbFSuqJkMF3CzrnhZZG0v2JFQ-ZbRVcTXKsndZxiQI7eHstx-5ZpjA_mhDNoECB6DIUiIBj7ELxXV_L_WZv/s4032/IMG_4239.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHOvnBaEC8rAVWi6-PHzRjuAtWjx0sKrAGZJ-gTxAPsogTaKVsy2lDoZ7cbZMMsDIfBSWeJ-IkfbHV6JZaPq8xdVI59sc6bPl85P55MoptkbFSuqJkMF3CzrnhZZG0v2JFQ-ZbRVcTXKsndZxiQI7eHstx-5ZpjA_mhDNoECB6DIUiIBj7ELxXV_L_WZv/s320/IMG_4239.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBfXG9VcyTsvm-OJgy-BVdIPLocNdCqRP_KqKbFykyQeAR3Kekihs4vsfl_dCVXKoAq8-sEVCCMhoDPgjD9BzpnKcSlihEU4IzG0q6Du5LZLtyIdN975INRLc55Qc5CXGtzJsX0nQYKjis45feZawGrS4IbARCOjCfGdCm7x1P8F7EQyCeKx14e1dlxMT/s4032/IMG_4246.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBfXG9VcyTsvm-OJgy-BVdIPLocNdCqRP_KqKbFykyQeAR3Kekihs4vsfl_dCVXKoAq8-sEVCCMhoDPgjD9BzpnKcSlihEU4IzG0q6Du5LZLtyIdN975INRLc55Qc5CXGtzJsX0nQYKjis45feZawGrS4IbARCOjCfGdCm7x1P8F7EQyCeKx14e1dlxMT/s320/IMG_4246.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqFAw3r2zBK5yyDPy2VeQpT1BuyRlf9FTgRIevx4PuS5Nsi_pNiYgBlbZYg7VVG2YvMMtlwqiYlFK6ZDO4HE6uBWVvZGtiasjHfiw2Sc16vC0Lg9Z-sc9e0vOdlJf00Do42TaEXW58C2VO_IPl_zYs-hCA52e_mHgoL8qJZRaY22jlOsgm8KvoSXr7BjQ/s4032/IMG_4257.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqFAw3r2zBK5yyDPy2VeQpT1BuyRlf9FTgRIevx4PuS5Nsi_pNiYgBlbZYg7VVG2YvMMtlwqiYlFK6ZDO4HE6uBWVvZGtiasjHfiw2Sc16vC0Lg9Z-sc9e0vOdlJf00Do42TaEXW58C2VO_IPl_zYs-hCA52e_mHgoL8qJZRaY22jlOsgm8KvoSXr7BjQ/s320/IMG_4257.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> More from Northumberland; the 'clock' is a tidal clock in the guest house where we were staying, useful for knowing when we could go to the tidal island of Lindisfarne.</div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <br />
I<br />
<br />
Rose and I together,<br />
Gangrels on the Ben<br />
Stomping snow or heather.<br />
<br />
Feet ensconced in leather,<br />
Free and careless then<br />
Rose and I together.<br />
<br />
Loosed the daily tether,<br />
Left the mundane pen<br />
Stomping snow or heather.<br />
<br />
Climbed past ewe and wether<br />
Far from homes of men<br />
Rose and I together.<br />
<br />
Vagaries of weather<br />
Dappled vision when<br />
Stomping snow or heather.<br />
<br />
Yearning, I ask whether<br />
That will be again <br />
Rose and I together<br />
Stomping snow or heather.<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
"Oft have I travelled"<br />
Hrafnkel's tortuous terrain<br />
Traversing mire-veiled rock<br />
To Eyvind's treacherous murder;<br />
<br />
Clambered with Grettir Greitlandsjokull<br />
By the ice-shaded crevasse<br />
To where in the shadowed valley<br />
Only sheep perturbed his peace;<br />
<br />
Come with Kjartan to the rock<br />
By the ravine Hafragill<br />
Where his friend bore<br />
Anger into the ambush;<br />
<br />
Stumbled with the blind bard Egil<br />
To his final murders<br />
Where edging bogs and pits<br />
He buried money and slaves;<br />
<br />
Ranged with SkarpHedin<br />
The nightroad with the ringing halberd:<br />
"Two ravens flew with them <br />
All the way";<br />
<br />
Raced to the river with Hedin,<br />
Hurled to the icehump,<br />
Birdfast skimmed the snowbridge,<br />
Slidden to the crux of the battle.<br />
<br />
Gone with Gunnar back<br />
Through glorious slope and gold cornfields,<br />
Thralled by Iceland s loveliness<br />
To his home and thief's eyed Hallgerd.<br />
<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
Wanderings, tergiversations, vacillations.<br />
I have trodden the wilderness,<br />
Thirsted, hungered and murmured:<br />
Stumbled back towards Egypt<br />
(Through grace moated by the Sea);<br />
Plunged headlong to Hormah<br />
To force the land in my strength,<br />
And trawled through sand and rock:<br />
Even, in some seasons followed<br />
The Ark to our resting place.<br />
<br />
For I have tasted the grapes of Eshcol<br />
And seen in spirit the fertile land:<br />
Milk and honey are to my taste:<br />
And I, like Caleb, have the land in my heart.<br />
<br />
But more I know the One<br />
Who bore me to this waste<br />
Will plant me in His mountain,<br />
His fixed and purposed place.<br /></span>
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OF THE ARTIST<br /> <br />
I<br />
<br />
Meaning was not enough,<br />
Aptness with words even<br />
Was unsatisfying:<br />
A hunger of the mind.<br />
<br />
Sometimes a distant form<br />
Will almost coalesce<br />
But defies the eye's focus;<br />
The object undefined.<br />
<br />
The artist forges line,<br />
Colour, texture and form<br />
Into a unity:<br />
More than he had defined.<br />
<br />
So he became a poet:<br />
The timbre of the words<br />
And texture of their sounds<br />
Cast him this other kind.<br />
<br />
<br />
II<br />
<br />
Words and images<br />
I have cajoled into<br />
My own order.<br />
<br />
Into my mind and others' minds<br />
I have guddled, hoping<br />
Some plump, fresh grilse might surface.<br />
<br />
I have ridged page upon page<br />
That seed of my sowing<br />
Might bear some fertile ears.<br />
<br />
Through others fields and wastes<br />
I have tramped, plucking<br />
Berries, seeds and feathers.<br />
<br />
Tentatively I have raided<br />
Unaccustomed lands<br />
Trying to make something mine.<br />
<br />
And I have essayed to deploy<br />
Old images and rhymes<br />
Into new hymns and anthems.<br />
<br />
If any words have lived<br />
Or any symbols danced<br />
I have become a poet.<br />
<br />
III<br />
<br />
If I am poet, not mere versifier,<br />
That honed style has been the marque<br />
Of the real poems; while the concetto used<br />
Is the best I can distil into the poetic<br />
Myth-cauldron. Since both are derived<br />
From a better poet I make no claim<br />
To originality. But I attempt to build<br />
On others' foundations: the minor poet's task.<br />
Consider my idyll; a laird or chieftain<br />
Rules benignly; peasant and shepherd<br />
(Or fisher) fold grain and flesh;<br />
A tramp scuffs past; a fighter or seaman<br />
Relives old struggles; and each in his way<br />
Poet and priest bear succour and praise.<br />
Against these archetypes I have tasked others<br />
Now try myself: will the metal weigh true?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjK4239F0Gz9zevRz_EshUl3LbNviEH75O9fEx2E0J-rv40O53FZRfcE7AlYDbUAYU7AAF19AGme0Q-sWVMd06-MzDlMcG9fz9ed139iUEMQ79u1Kn21S6kG53GkmH5QvC2tyfiYeCHBu4qqCjgfR5LmGEkhA-NtW4hWQ-da1kKJaWx36rbZAKNLx_VMAV/s640/IMG_4206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">From our hearts an anthem swelleth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To the One whose grace excelleth </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thou art fairer than the sons of men!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thou art First and Last and the Amen:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thou art throned in perfect fitness</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Who wast here the faithful Witness </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thou art fairer than the sons of men!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All Thou art transcendeth human ken</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thus Thy grace and glory raises</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Worship, adoration, praises </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thou art fairer than the sons of men!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sing this to the tune of "God be with you till we meet again".</div></div><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-1356587967221523832023-12-17T22:22:00.004+00:002023-12-17T22:22:43.438+00:00THE LORD IS IN CONTROL<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymE2tL0NkEnf4zZW659D57ZCIGSANBnmYQSxOHC41-JVhX1DW5lV_F1wcexk2KuZz0uM7HTkdunYEV7Ib5wCkS5tK8Rx_ZRoQeNvmM2gW7FanYDilCoKSnNFRQ3anDRUZcDp_a8qq6PUQE3-TdJ7cDMjkCOb2K63uLGl5YUcg8tEPjRBSogeEQV7HOTY5/s640/IMG_4230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Beneath magma</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Rises, lava bursts,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Feel worldly shudders:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Lord is in control.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Within bacteria</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Of leprosy, viruses,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Parasites: the Lord is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In control.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The pastures are green;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The waters are still;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The soul within me restored:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Lord is in control.</span></span></p><p><br /></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-12779046814909746672023-12-10T18:05:00.001+00:002023-12-10T18:05:43.424+00:00REDEMPTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;">My land was barren, and my sheep had fled,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My barn was ruined, and my wealth was spent,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My fences shattered, and my sheepdog dead:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Landlord faithfully required his rent.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">How could I pay a penny of my debt</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From land my wandering sheep had churned to mud?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Landlord's writ forbad me to forget</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And showed the rental must be paid in blood.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And so I asked for Mercy. Mercy came</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To help me plead, with her resplendent face.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And we were heard, although I had no claim,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While all my pleas evoked the help of Grace.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Landlord gave me wealth that would suffice</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For life, and told me He had paid the price.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-21725383325599121902023-12-03T12:22:00.001+00:002023-12-03T12:24:07.370+00:00ECONOMIC SONNETS<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkWEor8ZPPYvFWjEkBw-q4urxS2I8sN_aIwIeovbYSMbbAlIMSDhEsV6enxWwH0YPe1tnM2b3BTlaWB6ZvU1MQ5_63d9Is42IQhz53a9I11eO2Sub4lUraUKoJLq9Q1vSOzrbBBVwCRgBlvG4-mbtWB0cRseLYhiKoqagvJWYBIx7t5EubSTukGbk9ntjY/s640/IMG_4222.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkWEor8ZPPYvFWjEkBw-q4urxS2I8sN_aIwIeovbYSMbbAlIMSDhEsV6enxWwH0YPe1tnM2b3BTlaWB6ZvU1MQ5_63d9Is42IQhz53a9I11eO2Sub4lUraUKoJLq9Q1vSOzrbBBVwCRgBlvG4-mbtWB0cRseLYhiKoqagvJWYBIx7t5EubSTukGbk9ntjY/w640-h480/IMG_4222.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>This needs some explanation. I'm doing an online module of study on economic development, part of which is internet discussion with my fellow-students. And part of the marking is to provide personal reflections on the discussions. These make up the first seven sonnets; but economists don't have real answers; so I went on afterwards to the eighth sonnet. </p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On The Advantages of the Developed Nations</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">First movers in industrialisation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Gained a first step towards imperialism,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And while most states have outward liberation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They’re held in thrall to neoliberalism;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Resources were available, which first</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Allowed the wealth the north can now attain,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But all development entails a thirst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For energy which Earth cannot sustain.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We thought of inequalities in nations,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And India and China’s new advance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And current change in women’s situations,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Though I had doubts about its relevance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I wondered how advances in technology</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Impinged on nations’ ruling ideology.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On Developing and Measuring Development</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While we could all accept that GDP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is not a useful measure of advancement</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We found it rather harder to agree</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Alternatives: each measure needs enhancement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was proposed each nation should decide</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Which let me tell my comrade in Bhutan</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They measure happiness – which won’t provide</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">An answer to the woes the north began.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We thought of global warming to produce</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Grief in the south, which cannot be denied;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And rightwing thinking which will not reduce</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Our inequalities – and never tried.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While I was sad that if you plant a tree</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It has no impact on your GDP.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On Traditional Theories of Development</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Economists have their creation myth:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That markets, through a hand that is invisible</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Work best for all, or so thought Adam Smith,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Which most think true , but which Marx thought was risible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Using competitive advantages we all thus</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ricardo thought, live where world trading boomed,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But all was limited thought Thomas Malthus</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Since population growth means we're all doomed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It's all old hat, thinks Sean, while Hannah's found</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Positives lacking. Kayley thinks that Keynes</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is useful still, and Neo-Keynesianism sound</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">When government in wisdom intervenes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The way I'd set things out seemed satisfying</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To David Skene, which I found gratifying.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On Dependency Theory</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Next week we were confronted with a query</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And I must squeeze thought on it in a minute,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">About the value of dependency theory</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And I concluded – yeah, there’s something in it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Although the nations of the south are free</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They’re bound to give the north its interest,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While I would ask us all to what degree</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They have internalised, ‘the west is best’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Colonialism stole the south’s resources</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And keeps them still as primary producers;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Was this designed? I asked, and, What recourses</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Extracted Asia from its seducers?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As metaphor Pat showed a trafficker</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Has dumped our useless clothes on Africa.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On the Role of International Institutions</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The role of international institutions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Which were set up at Bretton Woods</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is marred, I showed, because their constitutions,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While set up maybe for our common goods,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lacked in legitimate democracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The US has a veto on decisions,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And with its prevalent hypocrisy</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is likely to resist the south’s revisions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To whom, asked Clare, are they accountable?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Examples of corruption have been found.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is their attacks on human rights surmountable?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Will they let fossil fuels stay in the ground?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And for how long will the world bank be loath</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To think there is another way than growth?</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On Endogenous Growth Theory</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Endogenous Growth Theory foxed us next,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Perhaps because parts were too obvious.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With thought about it we were less perplexed:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Some institutions may be noxious;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By sorting that, enhancing education,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And using new technology growth grows.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Yet much harks back to Smith’s specialisation:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">How much has man advanced in what he know?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But what if growth is not what we desire?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Kayley suggests our turbines might be taller</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As our advanced technologies require</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Less land and thus their footprint will be smaller.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Tharoor hails, in one book he has compiled,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">“The education of the female child”.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On The Role of the State</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We started with the British constitution,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sean designated as “uncodified”,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Which came through parliamentary evolution.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ros thought codification should be tried</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So that all know responsibilities and rights.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The fact one could hold governments in check</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is a development which Lindy cites,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Though changes may become a bottleneck.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Most liked the one I showed from Ecuador,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Especially the section about food;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But courts are one thing we must reckon for</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">If aims of constitutions are not good.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So Swiss may readily change the agenda</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In one of their persistent referenda.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On the Answer to It All</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Searching the world for principles and laws</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Economists have scanned economies</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But their conclusions were unsure because</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They only reached to externalities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sometimes they helped external human need</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But could not solve the need that is within;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They could not cure the root of human greed,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because the root of human greed is sin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">God came in Christ to deal with sin and sins,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And in His grace to souls the Saviour died;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The only hope for human hearts begins</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because God’s Christ is raised and glorified.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The present worries, and the future’s grim</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Unless we have our faith and hope in Him.</span></p><p><br /></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-58405583567763734812023-11-27T20:59:00.007+00:002023-12-10T14:11:07.388+00:00TEN REASONS TO BELIEVE IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitd7cqAT6MZzBWDp47a1qexGPuybdQBl-jcAWfSnixx4HvSQ4NJ_6y0_XPBn2wUWcU_Vg7oTCGRRH2cdTHXVu4pDO4MNJ5kUAfP9O0VybGk2qm56IMW6AcrXhv13M7YNJjkOfXFfhlUROBsO4zjyRPh7C56lpbkTJCg7L4A85nL0ZDXSUgV7wv4lU2FwBm/s640/IMG_4215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitd7cqAT6MZzBWDp47a1qexGPuybdQBl-jcAWfSnixx4HvSQ4NJ_6y0_XPBn2wUWcU_Vg7oTCGRRH2cdTHXVu4pDO4MNJ5kUAfP9O0VybGk2qm56IMW6AcrXhv13M7YNJjkOfXFfhlUROBsO4zjyRPh7C56lpbkTJCg7L4A85nL0ZDXSUgV7wv4lU2FwBm/s320/IMG_4215.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bamburgh village and surroundings</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because the Shepherd</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Knowing the depths of my need</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Gave Himself for me;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because the Shepherd</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In His goodness carried me</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On His own shoulders;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because the Spirit</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Has shone around me darkness</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The light of God's Word;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because the Spirit</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Has swept the house carefully</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Until He found me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because the Father</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ran to give me a welcome,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Embraced, and kissed me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because I am clothed</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In the Best Robe that God has,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The worth of Christ.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because I've been given</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The token of divine love</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A ring on my hand.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because I now wear</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The dignity that God gives,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sandals on my feet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because I can share</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The feast on the fatted calf:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">God's thoughts of His Son.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because God in grace</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Desires to give me a place</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In the Father's house.</span></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-25743202365853462832023-11-05T12:17:00.007+00:002023-11-05T12:17:57.402+00:00GIVING<p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Into a world inured to shame</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because of Adam’s fall</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">God’s Son, the man Christ Jesus, came</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And gave Himself for all.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He lived for us in poverty</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Possessing not a penny,</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Until He went to Calvary</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And gave His life for many.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Faced by God’s judgement’s awful tide</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a place to flee -</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 13.2px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To be the One in whom to hide.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHPLygjSxqd9BKVrqNe9I8F_tq5UbdJJfQnzoa-DhNLtCZW2_u0am6AV4c-wqapOew3Ez5TAo58oP-025vVrggKYoE3hJpAnEQvW1wCE9_RYNKJpPnsMebuh3jdIFjYdRlSKD3fGUAy__7KBJ2Py4kwjGo6VHFAac7XkyQ07kCYu9v0P9qbh0hJNzNfJw1/s640/IMG_4211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;">Revelation 5 verse 12</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Power, since in weakness He was here,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Upon a cross of shame;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">There what no other could achieve</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He did,extinguishing death's fear</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For those who own His Name.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Riches, because He came to dwell</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Among the meek and poor;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Those whom He came to serve believe</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That Jesus has done all things well</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To save, and bless, and cure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Wisdom because in foolishness</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He bore the cross in love;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thus He is able to retrieve</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lost ones, and finally, to bless</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With wisdom from above.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Strength since, as Samson tore the beast,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He rent death's power away;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That which bereft He has bereaved</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And gives us honey as a feast</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Out of His victory.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Honour, when He shall come again</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To where He was despised;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">No more to bear our sins, or grieve,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He will take up His right to reign</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And be adored and prized.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Glory, and have the highest place</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Among the justified;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">His sanctified companions cleave</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To Him alone since, through His grace,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They too are glorified.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Lamb is worthy to receive</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Blessing because He came to bless</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Through ways of grief and shame;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Bless then the One who chose to leave</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The heights of heaven, and confess</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The glory of His Name!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhraElh6GLUvehGByI2jlh1P5ccYQx_6YvSJWQptyv-s8PwTjuT-b8WfYNcgZfUjeLMn5M_ZpxUCQ_1xVRS4euuz68y7RPcA8Sa9OdNFBRQkcYA_GxaICbAP7Mftn9Cjb4FhyphenhyphenxJGPZkWj-BCCFCJ9nrhHyYlXob5uHsbYRlWeE-vChI0SVO_uHawpAEa3m/s4032/IMG_4198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">New ground for man; then that mountain</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Where He demonstrated the principle</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Of sacrifice; at Horeb was founded</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">New covenant ground; and Zion showed</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Mercy's sovereign rights; best things</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Of the ancient mountains. But now</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Christ is recognised in the mountain</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Of legislation; is signified as Son</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">On the transfiguration mount; while from the great</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And high mountain the assembly glory</span></div><span face="Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Shines in its serenity: the precious</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Things of the everlasting hills. </span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_bIMwUCQtL8pofnzpoR4aWghAh_69BW8Kcbp65hQSbV5Eg2mSWTGdD-isU-vcsOg4crsj1Pi0HjdQa1hjsHYto4zxyRkfPXHyMXR5wtmmALQNShpCCqH9AIexDzYU6CjlbaxQJ6gxCU8NrBDWFf4H_Q9tb60ojhZk30VfGRIhezDfxeUx5z9teyC76lw/s4032/IMG_4188.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_bIMwUCQtL8pofnzpoR4aWghAh_69BW8Kcbp65hQSbV5Eg2mSWTGdD-isU-vcsOg4crsj1Pi0HjdQa1hjsHYto4zxyRkfPXHyMXR5wtmmALQNShpCCqH9AIexDzYU6CjlbaxQJ6gxCU8NrBDWFf4H_Q9tb60ojhZk30VfGRIhezDfxeUx5z9teyC76lw/s320/IMG_4188.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;">If the lamb's blood around the door</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Was answer to immediate need</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">God strengthened for what lay before:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They had the lamb on which to feed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Christ has not only set me free</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But been the food to nourish me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">God overwhelmed the Egyptians first</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So that the victory was complete</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Then satisfied His people's thirst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By water wood He showed made sweet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because Christ died to make me free</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">"Christ" sweetens what refreshes me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Since the brass serpent held their gaze</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Though serpent-bitten they could live</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And reach soon, in Jehovah's ways,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The well He promised He would give.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sin in the flesh has been condemned;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Spirit's grace has been unstemmed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Jordan's flooding waters found</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A force that they could not withstand,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And once they crossed it on dry ground</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They ate the old corn of the land.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Christ and His cross have made me whole,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And Christ in glory feeds my soul.</span></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-57658367930325820682023-10-01T18:51:00.001+01:002023-10-01T18:51:30.250+01:00A PLACE BY ME<p><br /></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">“Behold, there is a place by Me:</span></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8586173294560763593" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><div dir="ltr" style="color: #222222;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">There shalt thou stand upon the rock”<br />For Jesus suffered to unlock<br />The blessings in God’s heart for thee.<br /><br />To answer thy desire to see<br />God’s glory, now revealed in grace<br />Effulgently in Jesus’ face -<br />“Behold there is a place by Me!”<br /><br />A scion of a noble stock<br />Of those who are the sons of light<br />Enter God’s realm for His delight,<br />“There shalt thou stand upon the rock”.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; 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font-size: large;">In Adam He now finds in</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A disciplined man." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-MGXSNT0L9nFb0HCVIOSyMThpn3mT3Mg062jlhymfjGMDReP4IBV3ybP-snQefnZ_LItR-cg2yizXrjJJAtBc42bZLAdQIr3JpL8u102YEcN9buhhFK0sTFZbfuU_0YEMBs0Swq8jZp1AyZjU4ZGWM0ighDzJXJRA24T-cXRQCzXZwxhhLlcUh3H9OaQ/s4032/IMG_4164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-MGXSNT0L9nFb0HCVIOSyMThpn3mT3Mg062jlhymfjGMDReP4IBV3ybP-snQefnZ_LItR-cg2yizXrjJJAtBc42bZLAdQIr3JpL8u102YEcN9buhhFK0sTFZbfuU_0YEMBs0Swq8jZp1AyZjU4ZGWM0ighDzJXJRA24T-cXRQCzXZwxhhLlcUh3H9OaQ/s320/IMG_4164.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ke7fOluCvF6ipGkfvMVM-eVp-cHM0wujENXh4DlaJiq7OY6R1aN81HydfY9yyVaifwBzkAsC7ovOaS3MWh9YuaeHSyjtizQgCuU21TrsKRl26oI74TlQ3HvhpLPdJAGd1LdWr_WuLnM5q8fXVxhVofb0lgbedlX3VOOPGL-lJoVdlnlW1vrgknGNzY-o/s320/IMG_4168.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On the Holy Island of Lindisfarne</span></div><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-45032185220914607302023-09-16T21:35:00.001+01:002023-09-16T21:35:20.505+01:00THE ARK AT REST<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All God's inheritance is richly blest</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Since, in the temple Solomon prepared,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Ark of God is finally at rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Round it a system God chose to invest</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With glory which will never be impaired</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">‑ All God's inheritance ‑ is richly blest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It led the way in every storm or test</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But now, past all the trials which they shared,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Ark of God is finally at rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Since God's great wisdom knew which way was best</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And He was there beside them as they fared</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All God's inheritance is richly blest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">His people praise the Lord with joy and zest</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As, while His lasting triumph is declared,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Ark of God is finally at rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Because God knew the object of their quest</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Before they ventured, and in all things cared,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All God's inheritance is richly blest;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Ark of God is finally at rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuPqm9NXEsNMylxExbrWJuVXa9ov6r8rSRZCS4NAT67qWeDj4chYVjF0LKyJmL6wutar0L1MhEyhuaw_P_VAO4sipcCKcJh669SjiXtFpqwNgV1SNdADATMm1rm4LzV4w1NXLFiHcIDefiCS4ZX2iF0BQOKcoX-MNhYiaahg2KXJcAXJHe1hS2H1Fmzz9d/s4032/IMG_4160.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuPqm9NXEsNMylxExbrWJuVXa9ov6r8rSRZCS4NAT67qWeDj4chYVjF0LKyJmL6wutar0L1MhEyhuaw_P_VAO4sipcCKcJh669SjiXtFpqwNgV1SNdADATMm1rm4LzV4w1NXLFiHcIDefiCS4ZX2iF0BQOKcoX-MNhYiaahg2KXJcAXJHe1hS2H1Fmzz9d/s320/IMG_4160.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm putting my India photos in at https://dcbindia.blogspot.com/ </span><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-64620627033103939172023-09-10T20:50:00.000+01:002023-09-10T20:50:10.068+01:00REMAINING AT JERUSALEM<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> A fit place for the Ark he longed to find</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">When he was still a youth in Bethlehem;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So as the king he firstly had in mind</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To bring it upward to Jerusalem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But when they took the Ark when he was spurned,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And Absalom his son usurped his throne,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">David ordained that it should be returned:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He would not make the Ark of God his own.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Peter loved Christ, rejoicing to belong</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">To such a Master, who did all things well;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But "Peter taking Him to him" was wrong</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And moved by impulses Christ had to quell.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">May I delight to call the Saviour mine</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But on His terms since He remains divine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsJYLftOAxAjMX8MDhqPEUyk-dTgoPooaSL7RDhG8dv2yCTH-Kw_17yz2jYnyXB6E9UUmdPROq0Ic0pePoM7OoK0kWU2S9dRbbqFRZFtUSdVrc1nn350tlmuGQ3RU5Tb425BW91kDaWSxkz9Hh-Pb6uqJmeKREbTlT4dt4QidBl8A9PYhB1EbZsMFt6m64/s4032/IMG_4136.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsJYLftOAxAjMX8MDhqPEUyk-dTgoPooaSL7RDhG8dv2yCTH-Kw_17yz2jYnyXB6E9UUmdPROq0Ic0pePoM7OoK0kWU2S9dRbbqFRZFtUSdVrc1nn350tlmuGQ3RU5Tb425BW91kDaWSxkz9Hh-Pb6uqJmeKREbTlT4dt4QidBl8A9PYhB1EbZsMFt6m64/w300-h400/IMG_4136.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Edinburgh view</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGphJnV9TOEd9dtJKgMrD6WJWFQ3DFJjcop9TfGUuTnveo-GpQszI4TDicnVHVNdjYq8PvtB8Ow93xf2ItnZl-HOLROFEfaBX68q7WMnFLUkcRbdHDQGXVWRNj3ishNpIbEP5p5m3GUeFVEQwD3WKMWQLIA0HtynoKbTHSc4hnvE_JaN-5Y2jQeX1UQU4V/s4032/IMG_4149.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGphJnV9TOEd9dtJKgMrD6WJWFQ3DFJjcop9TfGUuTnveo-GpQszI4TDicnVHVNdjYq8PvtB8Ow93xf2ItnZl-HOLROFEfaBX68q7WMnFLUkcRbdHDQGXVWRNj3ishNpIbEP5p5m3GUeFVEQwD3WKMWQLIA0HtynoKbTHSc4hnvE_JaN-5Y2jQeX1UQU4V/w300-h400/IMG_4149.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDKWywcKDmNeWJc4ySHhyGnuyBWvKpq_mi3MdQYF1rinaA4X1qXUH_6fvzPSUGqhViCcd5ku12hPn6KnQ67IiG9fD8vAawqJPO5C3Z9Ym2jdes-7lDDkFeo6wF9RShI9mCySSRtY2C4nlYtO8112q0Q6ZKTQIFj8t07yM6V1_fSNGQm-g9AHz2hJov0se/s4032/IMG_4151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDKWywcKDmNeWJc4ySHhyGnuyBWvKpq_mi3MdQYF1rinaA4X1qXUH_6fvzPSUGqhViCcd5ku12hPn6KnQ67IiG9fD8vAawqJPO5C3Z9Ym2jdes-7lDDkFeo6wF9RShI9mCySSRtY2C4nlYtO8112q0Q6ZKTQIFj8t07yM6V1_fSNGQm-g9AHz2hJov0se/w300-h400/IMG_4151.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Have you spotted this chap?</div></span><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-59119681745200623432023-09-08T20:26:00.003+01:002023-09-08T20:26:36.026+01:00BRINGING THE ARK TO JERUSALEM<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Using the fleshly notion of a cart</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">They sought to carry up the Ark, but failed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">When they eschewed the ways of human art</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And went by God's due order they prevailed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And what a time of holy jubilance:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Hear voice and music praise with one accord!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">See David, in true fervour, play and dance</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In honour of the glory of the Lord!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Often desires are good, objectives right,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But means wrong, till the way that God desires</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Is followed; and He has for His delight</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">His Christ and those that glorious One inspires.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">What joy it is to God that He should find</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Those who give Christ the honour God designed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUcDJ0U7125vTrlUYV4gVQ4e_6C8HmAItt-0O7f89PNHka1hFgK5Yuu0ejAL9hOeNW2L2w0UqYlKMz8qRHPmWPJiu6uFMrnF6MXc_NHKmKdNoCdtuKslHOWunXX0TYQ3-LUAPnGliIMtT6fafyt8LTh6JYIkQb8HlxuYXiFrYu8inHsFpKxQED4KOUyJT/s3024/IMG_4130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: x-large;">A lovely morning on Penicuik House Estate</span></div><p></p>David C Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700555217961835254.post-32161339422557532232023-09-05T19:02:00.000+01:002023-09-05T19:02:56.238+01:00THE ARK AND HOUSEHOLDS<p><br /></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">No longer exiled in a foreign land</span></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4398718078942871595" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Ark next suffered decades of neglect;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Abinadab could give the Ark room and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Still fail to teach his family respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But Obed‑Edom gave it its true place<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So that one came to David to attest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The evidence of God's unfailing grace ‑<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That through the Ark his household had been blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Pharisee invited Jesus in<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But failed to give Him honour from the start;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The woman came near, conscious of her sin,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But gave the Lord the throne‑room of her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lord Jesus, may my household always be<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">One where the foremost place belongs to Thee.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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