A SONG TO SING IN HEAVEN

 

A song to sing in heaven

Where the holy angel’s tread

So sang my heart in joy

The word of God was spread

ST SWITHIN AND THE WINCHESTER EGG WOMAN

An old lady's eggs had been smashed

On the new stone bridge by workmen

Swithin picked the broken eggs up and

They miraculously became whole again 

PATRON SAINT OF WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

 

Anglo-Saxon St Swithun

Was Bishop of Winchester

From his consecration

Until his death.

A century later

Dunstan and Æthelwold

Adopted him as patron

Of the restored church

Of Winchester

His body was transferred

From almost complete obscurity

To Æthelwold's new basilica

After which his posthumous miracles occurred

The Winchester egg-woman

And Queen Emma's ordeal

 

Feast Day 15^th July

ST SWITHIN AND QUEEN EMMA'S ORDEAL

 

Before the Norman Conquests

Princess Emma of Normandy

Became Queen Emma of England

Wife to King Æthelred the Unready

And then to Canute the Great of Denmark

She was falsely accused of adultery

But the night before her ordeal by fire

As she slept in Wargrave uneasily

Saint Swithun appeared in a dream

To tell her she would be set free

CROSS OF THE LIVING GOD # 1

 

Cross of the living God

Cast your gentle shadow

Keep us safe within its lee

And I will always know

You will answer my Prayer

Because you’re always there

Gentle Jesus, Gentle God

 

THE ATHEISTS LAST WORDS

 

The atheist spent his whole life

Denying the existence of a deity

Preached to all who would listen

The atheist thoughts of his reality

He even stated that the universe

Was created quite accidently

Even on his final day on earth

He was content there was no deity

But a moment before he crashed

He cried out “oh God help me”

GOD WINDS THE CLOCK OF LIFE

 

God winds the clock of life,

It is wound but once

And when set in motion,

At the moment the second hand

Begins its sweep

It can be neither slowed

Nor hurried

There is no hint of duration

No pre-set point

When the hands cease

The only certainty

Is that the time piece will stop

All you can do is be ready for that day

Leave nothing unsaid

Nothing undone

Place your faith in God

And not the timepiece

Live your allotted time fully

And have no regrets

When the movement stops

At the appointed hour