Selections from "In a Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ...
A lord of nature weeping to a tree
I live between the heron and the wren...
Verse 1 From an Hymn by Carol Christopher Drake
What is the crying at Jordan? Who hears, O God, the prophecy? Dark is the season, dark our hearts and shut to mystery.
Verse From an Ancient Hymn (contemporary wording)
Hark! A thrilling voice is sounding, "Christ is near" it seems to say; "Cast away the workds of darkness, O you children of the day"
Merciful God, who sent your messenges the prophets to preach repenance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer ...
From the Letter of Paul to the Phillipians (1:9-12)
... this is my prayer, that your ... knowledge and full insight ... help you to determine what is best, that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousess that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
Hymn verse by James Mason Neale
O very God of very God, and very light of light, Whose feet the earth's dark valley trod that so it may be bright; we wait in faith and turn our face to where the daylight springs, till Thou shall come our gloom to chase with healing in Thy wings.
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