Evensong

#10381:
Time passes slowly and sometimes stops for those in distress, for their preoccupation is often with the fear of dying - time, however, becomes you when in facing death you embrace life...

#10382:
What sound comes before the south wind, and what following sundown...? - they are those of the earth, and it is the inner ear that listens, the heart that hears...

#10383:
Birds lift effortlessly from the cliffside, catching the updrafts coming off the seas - so, too, is the heart able to lift off and soar when you embrace the winds of ignorance and darkness within...

#10384:
Still the mind, quiet the raging heart - listen, then, to what is within and telling, and true...