Creation Season

Introduction

Over the next few weeks as we go through the autumn a poem will be included with the weekly readings.
Some of the poems will be familiar and others may be new to you.
They will reflect thoughts and ideas associated with this time of year.

During the Creation Season we remind ourselves of God’s gift to us in all the wonders of creation. But we also remind ourselves that we should be caring for the earth rather than using it as a resource to be exploited.

Through the Season of Remembering we acknowledge that we and our communities have been affected by loss,
illness and death. We recognise those who have influenced our lives for good and we give thanks for God’s steadfast love.

To a Skylark    William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850#

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!
Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound?
Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye
Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?
Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will,
Those quivering wings composed, that music still!

Leave to the nightingale her shady wood;
A privacy of glorious light is thine;
Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood
Of harmony, with instinct more divine;
Type of the wise who soar, but never roam;
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!