"Seek your own isle - Christ's newly-bought domain
which nature with an emerald pencil paints.
Such as it is, long, long shall it remain,
the school of truth, the college of saints,
the student's bower, the hermit's calm retreat,
the stranger's home, the hospitable hearth,
the shrine to which shall wander pilgrim feet
from all the neighboring nations of the earth.'

'Now they move on to tell the story
of what has been and is, but also to come.
God in the now prepares us for a future;
the end is not yet - with God it is just begun.' "

From "Brendan - In Exploration of a Vision" , part X -found in "Celtic Daily Prayer" The Northumbria Community