Friday, March 8, 2019*

                          _____________Psalm 31:24_

  

  Be strong 

  and let 

  your heart   

  take courage, 

  all you who what for the Lord. 

*Geoffrey Anketell  

 Studdert Kennedy

   1883–1929   

English priest, poet and chaplain in World War One, nicknamed “Woodbine Willie” for the Woodbine cigarettes 

he handed out to the soldeires along with comfort, counsel and the sacraments. Author of the  poem and hymn "Not her efor high and holy things" which begins: 

          Not here for high and holy things 

          we render thanks to the, 

          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 glistening 

         of all the million stars, 

         the silent song they sing

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