Here are two poems to prepare your spirit for this coming weekend’s worship, Good Shepherd Sunday:
Saviour and friend,
how wonderful art Thou!
my companion upon the changeful way,
the comforter of its weariness,
my guide to the eternal town,
the welcome at its gate.
~Alistair Maclean
As the moorland pool images the sun,
so in our hours of self-giving Thou shinest on us,
and we mirror Thee to others.
But of that other land, our heaven to be,
we have no picture at all.
Only we know that Thou art there,
and Jesus the door and the welcome
of each faithful one.
~Alistair Maclean