(Wednesday March 8) Today we remember Geoffrey Anketel Studdert-Kennedy (1883-1929) English husband and father of nine, poet and priest who became a chaplain in the First World War which led him to pacifism and Christian socialism.

                                               Psalm 119:64

  The earth, O Lord, is full of your love;

               instruct me in your statutes. 

I was happy to run into the this hymn again! I went looking for a You Tube video of this sung but couldn’t find it…. So this is the do if yourself version - music and words: 

https://youtu.be/xEob2B4u6KA

Not here for high and holy things

we render thanks to thee,

but for the common things of earth,

the purple pageantry

of dawning and of dying days,

the splendor of the sea,

the royal robes of autumn moors,

the golden gates of spring,

the velvet of soft summer nights,

the silver glistering

of all the million million stars,

the silent song they sing,

of faith and hope and love undimmed,

undying still through death,

the resurrection of the world,

what time there comes the breath

of dawn that rustles through the trees,

and that clear voice that saith:

Awake, awake to love and work!

The lark is in the sky,

the fields are wet with diamond dew,

the worlds awake to cry

their blessings on the Lord of life,

as he goes meekly by.

Come, let thy voice be one with theirs,

shout with their shout of praise;

see how the giant sun soars up,

great lord of years and days!

So let the love of Jesus come

and set thy soul ablaze,

to give and give, and give again,

what God hath given thee;

to spend thyself nor count the cost;

to serve right gloriously

the God who gave all worlds that are,

and all that are to be.

 Words: Geoffrey Anketel Studdert-Kennedy 

                        our dude for the day 
Music: Morning Song