S U N D A Y S N I P P E T S (tm) # 1 2 4 10 May '98 A Better Resurrection ---------------------- I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears. Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me. My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall--the sap of spring; O Jesus, rise in me. My life is like a broken bowl, A broken bowl that cannot hold One drop of water for my soul Or cordial in the searching cold; Cast in the fire the perished thing; Melt and remould it, till it be A royal cup for Him, my King: O Jesus, drink of me. - Christina Rossetti (d. 1894) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sunday Snippets" is the trademark of G. MacKenzie Strickland. May be freely redistributed - forward to a friend or two. The Sunday Snippets archive is at homepage: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ab531/Profile.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember to nourish your soul: Read a portion of the Bible every day, and seek the company of fellow believers to build each other up in the faith. --------------------------------------------------------- file: /pub/resources/text/sunday.snippets: snip98-124.txt .