October 12

Surely God is in this place, and I knew it not. — Gen 28:16

The Parish Priest, of austerity, Climbed up in the high church steeple To be nearer God, that he might hand His word down to the people. And in sermon script he daily wrote What he thought was sent from heaven; And he dropped it down on the people’s heads Two times one day in seven. In his age God said, “Come down and die.” And he cried out from the steeple: “Where art thou, Lord?” And the Lord replied: “Down here among My people.” — Selected.