General (Vol. 2)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. A Small Voice
  2. Aspects of Motherhood
  3. When Jesus Stands Before Me
  4. The Revolution
  5. I Cannot Bear to See the News
  6. Disaster
  7. Ways of Praying
  8. Five Thousand
  9. When the Colour Runs Out
  10. For Mission
  11. Life Songs
  12. Exploring Theodicy And Dorothy Soelle
  13. Salute the Dawn
  14. World Harvest
  15. Dona Nobis
  16. I give
  17. How Do You Know?
  18. War and Peace
  19. Security
  20. Risk
  21. Behind the Tomb
  22. The Fall in Question
  23. Clarity in Mystery
  24. Forever and Sublime
  25. Death's Shadow in a Kiss
  26. Beauty
  27. Dearest Jesus
  28. Deus Semper Maior
  29. The Parish Church
  30. The Earthly Pain of Jesus
  31. Amor Omnia Vincit
  32. Gospel Music
  33. Thy Glittering Throne Awaits The Throng
  34. Wisdom and Love
  35. Creativity
  36. Traditions
  37. God and His People
  38. Love is Supreme
  39. Liberation
  40. The Heavenly Balance
  41. The Impenetrable Core
  42. All Saints
  43. The Calling of Mary
  44. Christ Triumphant Dwells within Us
  45. On the Streets
  46. You and Me
  47. Revenge
  48. Hostages
  49. Earthly Glory
  50. Water of Life

Death's Shadow in a Kiss

  1. Death's shadow in a kiss,
    Frost in the opening bud,
    Post Coital tristesse,
    Bones in the muscled sod:
    Ecstasy feeds on future desolation
    Which gives our joys their unique desperation.
  2. Helpless the toiling hand
    Without Your intervention,
    Empty the soul without
    Our Saviour's intercession:
    Yet You have tied Your fortune to our will
    That we might choose to love You or rebel.
  3. Better the harvest hay,
    The weariness of endings,
    Than the indifferent tree,
    Forbidding understanding:
    I hope to walk with You in heaven at last
    But earn a fragment of forever first.