"This, then is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. That war is our wilderness. If we wage it courageously, we will find Christ at our side. If we cannot face it, we will never find him."
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Ave Maria: Gustav Holst
As we approach All Saintstide, the weather is becoming ever more autumnal - it was a glorious morning yesterday, with the early morning sun cutting through the shifting mist from the Severn estuary and striking the tops of the trees whose leaf colours are changing now day by day. These are the last few hours of British Summer Time, the clocks go back an hour tonight - so, into the darkness of the British winter!
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