late birthday boast

Have recently accomplished the noteworthy and extremely difficult task of aging another year, I will now proceed to offer my thanks to:
My fellow travellers. It would be a lonely road without you. Christ is enough should we be chosen to a life of loneliness, but it would be arrogant and wrong to take for granted [...]

thy love increase

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,
Which before the Cross I spend;
Life and health and peace possessing,
From the sinners dying friend.
Truly blessed is this station,
Low before His Cross to lie;
While I see divine compassion,
Beaming in His languid eye.
Love and grief my heart deviding,
With all my tears His feet I’ll bathe;
Constant still in faith abiding,
Life deriving from [...]