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The Hour Glass

March 05, 2009 | Comments: 1

Alas! How swift the moments fly!
How flash the years along!
Scarce here, yet gone already by,
The burden of a song.
See childhood, youth, and manhood pass,
And age, with furrowed brow; rime was-
Time shall be-drain the glass
But where in Time is now?
Time is the measure but of change;
No present hour is found;
The past, the future, fill the range
Of Time’s unceasing round.
Where, then, is now?
In realms above,
With God’s atoning Lamb,
In regions of eternal love,
Where sits enthroned I AM.
Then, pilgrim, let thy joys and tears
On Time no longer lean;
But henceforth all thy hopes and fears
From earth’s affections wean:
To God let votive accents rise;
With truth, with virtue, live;
So all the bliss that Time denies
Eternity shall give.

~ John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848, 6th President of the United States

Homesick Pilgrim

March 02, 2009 | Comments: 0

This song by Dougie MacLean should resonate in the heart of all those who are strangers and pilgrims, who seek to go to their true homeland.

Keith Mathison, whose book on Sola Scriptura I reviewed here, posts on his blog how this yearning of a Scot for his ancestral home is truly a shadow and metaphor of the Christian’s yearning for heaven.

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