Mustard Meditation

orchidee



Tune: St Stephen

('In Christ there is no east or west')

Luke 13 v.18-19

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The kingdom of God it here be

Like grain of mustard, see

Which one took, cast into the ground

Though it smallest seed found

 

It grew in garden, to great tree

Birds did lodge in it, see

Nested in its branches, the strong

There they made joyful song

 

If we little seem, as that seed

Help us, Lord, your words heed

From small starts we may grow apace

Inspired by your good grace

 

Potential, with power to grow

Valued to you we know

Become great plant, and sheltering

Others, them pastoring

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 7th, 2021 02:17
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre. Here is a picture of a mustard tree. The church in the video is St Martin's-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 41
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Comments7

  • orchidee

    Remember growing mustard and cress in school days? It grows into this (as in pic) when planted in soil.

  • dusk arising

    I am imagining you singing this fine piece u have penned (reaches for an asprin).

  • Doggerel Dave

    Thank you for bringing St Martin's-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London to the public's notice orchi.
    I've had blood removed in the crypt, and latterly that same space fed me. Fair return?

    • orchidee

      Thanks Dave,

    • Saxon Crow

      English or dijon?
      Great ooem orchi

      • orchidee

        Thanks SC. Erm, none for me thanks - don't like the taste! lol. Oohh, an ooem. Is that like a Haiku, or summat French? ( I dunno the languages!).

        • Saxon Crow

          It's a lowku actually

        • Neville



          ................. this is hot .. is it not

          • orchidee

            Thanks Neville. Now I've made meself swoon, whether or not I've met any of those lasses.

          • Michael Edwards

            Hot stuff Orchi

            • orchidee

              Thanks M. You know Mustard Berles? (I'm being daft now!).

              • Michael Edwards

                She spreads it around a bit. Or so I'm told.

              • Goldfinch60

                Good one Orchi, may we all grow with peace and love.

                Andy

                • orchidee

                  Thanks Gold. You cut that mustard, as they say?

                  • Goldfinch60

                    The ways I make mustard I barely have a knife sharp enough to cut it.

                    Andy



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