Meditations on the Way: Poems of a Christian Journey

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And they said:

Let us build a bridge

Over the Harbour waters

From one end to the other.

So they planned together

In competition and in co-operation.

The labour was begun.

From either end they started,

They worked by light and candlelight,

By sun and moon and stars;

The days and nights went by,

Closer and closer to the final day

When all their labours would be told,

If it should be a triumph or disaster-

How possibly, how could both ends meet exactly?

But at the appointed hour

When every face was turned to it,

From both sides it met exactly,

And not a hair's breadth between.

And so Thy will be done on earth

As it is in Heaven

And not a hair's breadth between.

Let human works begin from one side

And the Hand of God from the other;

Let Christ Jesus be our cornerstone,

And time shall join Eternity in Him,

And not a hair's breadth between.

From this day on

Our works may be like His-

Our medicine meet the miraculous,

Our artists approach the Divine,

And every soul become a Christ-soul.

For as the Kingdom is His, it is also ours,

By His love for us and in His Name.

All ends of the spectrum converge on Him forever,

And not a hair's breadth between.

I love to gaze upon the bridge,

And see the symbol=

Not a Tower of Babel

Nor an encumbrance to Nature,

But the glory of man's labour under God,

And the blest hope of things to come forevermore, Amen.

Sr. Giles  aka Pia Fugaccia (C) 2007

Edited 05/12/2008

Br Andrew EFO