Words of Light and Hope from Tony Hawes

Words of Light and Hope from Tony Hawes,  for Trinity Sunday.

For God so loved the world that he gave his
only Son, so that everyone who believes in
him may not perish but may have eternal life.

God makes for us a place
to live and move and be;
but though it is one space,
it has dimensions three.
One matter God creates;
yet in this earthly mass,
we find it in three states
as solid, liquid, gas.
Out of eternity
the time God calls is one;
perceived in tenses three,
past, present, future run.
So in this Trinity
of matter, time and space,
we may embroidered see
the pattern of God’s face.
Denis Parry (A Poets Calendar).

I am accepted by God as I am – as I am,
and not as I should be….He loves me with
my ideals and disappointments, my sacrifices
and my joys, my successes and my failures.
God is himself the deepest Ground of my being.
It is one thing to know I am accepted and quite
another thing to realize it. It is not enough to
have just once touched the love of God.
There is more required to build one’s life
on God’s love. It takes a long time to believe
that I am accepted by God as I am.
Peter G. van Breemen SJ.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise him all creatures here below.
Praise him above, ye heavenly host.
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Bp. Thomas Ken.