Brexit And Simplicity

The next few days may determine (keep your fingers crossed) whether UK will become Post-Brexit or No-Exit or continue in the throes of 'Don't Know Yet'.    Whether you are an internationalist or a localist, the CAH value of Simplicity is all-important.

Simplicity in our speaking and writing tells the truth in plain words. The Lord’s Prayer contains 56 words, the Ten Commandments 297, the American Declaration of Independence 300 - and The European Economic Community Directive on the Export of Duck Eggs contains 26,911 words!

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Last Wednesday members of Cramlington churches joined Aidan and Hilda members from Liverpool, London and Shetlands who were on an Igniting the Flame Course at Open Gate, Holy Island,  to witness Anna Knox take her First Vows.  Jutta provided a welcome of delicious home-cooked scones etc.  and Robert organised the logistics of the service.

 At the close of the vows service Anna read these lines from Marjorie Milne’s poem Rhymes from a Lindisfarne Monk:

He is my king, in my heart he’s hid

He is my joy all joys amid

I am a drop in his ocean lost

His coracle I, on his wide sea tossed

A leaf in his storm.

The book of his praise in my wallet slung

The cloak of his friendship round me flung

Hither and thither about I’m blown

My way an eddy, my rest a stone

And he my fire.

My meat his work and my drink his will

He is my song, my strength, my skill

And all folk my lovers in good and ill

Through him my desire

In the track of the wind I trace his feet

And none of his coming was e’er so fleet

So sweet

Often my heart is a heavy stone

Mocked, trodden under and spat upon

My way a mirk, and I alone, alone

Then in my heart flames a climbing star

As his pilgrim feet come flashing far

To bring me where the blessed are

He is the cleft in the dark sky riven

Whereby I may leap to the bending heaven

Through the storm

Marjorie Milne of Glastonbury