Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Birthday Celebrations & Time


Yesterday we travelled over to "Cheshire Oaks " for a meal celebrating my nephew Rob's 21st birthday ...he looked a little worse for wear as he had not long arrived back from his Hogmanay trip to Edinburgh ....

I can remember the day he was born as if it was yesterday ...How the years fly by ...reminds me of a poem written on the clock in Chester Cathedral..

When as a child I laughed and wept,
Time crept.
When as a youth I waxed more bold,
Time strolled.
When I became a full-grown man,
Time ran.
When older still I daily grew.
Time flew.
Soon I shall find, in passing on,
Time gone.
O Christ, wilt Thou have saved me then?
Amen.