Christ our Everlasting Light

Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.

- Alexander MacLaren -

Hearts Always Set Towards Heaven

We must devote, not only times and places to prayer, but be everywhere in the spirit of devotion; with hearts always set toward heaven, looking up to God in all our actions, and doing every thing as His servants; living in the world as in a holy temple of God, and always worshiping Him, with our lips, with the thankfulness of our hearts, the holiness of our actions and the pious and charitable use of all His gifts.

- William Law -

Psalm 25:4-5

Show me your ways,
O LORD,
teach me your paths;
guide me in your truth
and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope
is in you all day long.

Isa 25:7-8

And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations. He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces,

Verse from Dean A. B. Stanley

He is gone – and we remain
In this world for sin and pain:
In the void which He has left,
On this earth of Him bereft.
We have still His works to do;
We can still His path pursue;
Seek Him in both friend and foe,
In ourselves His image show.

Second Advent - John Milton

Come forth out of Thy royal chamber, O Prince of all the kings of the earth; put on thy visible robes of Thy imperial majesty; take up that unlimited sceptre which thy Almighty Father hath bequeathed Thee. For now the voice of thy bride calls Thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.