From light to….
In brief – to be honest, to be fearless, to be just, joyous, kind. This will make our part in life’s great and as yet not fully understood play, one of greatest glory, and we need then stand in fear of nothing – life nor death; for death is life. Or rather, perchance, it is the quick transition to life in another form, the putting off of the old coat and the putting on of the new; a passing not from light to darkness, but from light to light, according as we have lived here – a part in life not to be shunned or dreaded or feared, but to be welcomed with a glad and ready smile when it comes in its own good way and time.
Trine’s “Creed of the open Road”
Sunset and evening star
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning at the bar
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as, moving seems asleep,
Too full of sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness or farewell
When I embark;
For, though from out the bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
In my Father’s house…
In my fathers house there are many resting places. If it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you so that where I am you may be also.
John 14:2
Seek ye Him ….
Seek ye Him who turneth the shadow of death to morning.
Amos, Old Testament
Lord, in your Mercy
O Lord
Support us with your grace
Through all hours of life’s day
Until the shadows lengthen
The busy world hushed
The fever of life is over,
and the evening comes.
Then, Lord in your mercy
grant us safe lodging
A holy rest
And peace at last;
Through Christ our Lord
Amen
John Henry Newman