Words of Light and Hope from Fran Neale AWA
Words of Light and Hope 16th June 2024
The hymn “Lead kindly Light” always makes me think of my maths teacher. Not that he was especially pious, but he would often quote the line “one step enough for me” as an important principle to follow in maths. Here is the rest of the first verse :-
“Lead kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
lead thou me on;
the night is dark, and I am far from home;
lead thou me on.
Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
the distant scene;
one step enough for me.
Perhaps, like me, you aren’t sure who John Henry Newman, the writer of that hymn, was. He was an important person in the life of the Church in the 19th century. Two other well known hymns by him are “Firmly I believe and truly” and “Praise to the Holiest in the height”.
Two favourite quotes of his are :- “To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
and “Growth is the only evidence of life.”
I recently read a quote by Winston Churchill which resonated with me :-
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
