CQOD: 03/08/08 -- Studdert Kennedy: Thou who art Lord

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 8, 2008

Commemoration of Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Priest, Poet, 1929

Meditation:
    Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
    -- Matthew 5:7 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Thou who art Lord of all the tender pities,
        Mercy Incarnate, human and divine,
    How could we write Thy name upon these cities
        Wherein Thy children live like herded swine?

    Would not those eyes that saw their angels gazing
        Into the brightness of the Father’s face,
    Turn on this slum, with Love and fury blazing,
        Shriv'ling our souls with shame of such a place?

    “Where are My children, those the Father gave you?
        What have you done with babes that bore My name?
    Was it for this I suffered so to save you?
        Must I for ever burn for you in shame?”
    ... G. A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), from Collected Poetry, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1927, p. 126

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, pour out the Spirit of Your mercy on Your people.

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