{"id":850,"date":"2015-10-30T23:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lrbc.org.uk\/news\/?p=850"},"modified":"2015-10-30T23:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:58:36","slug":"leigh-on-sea-what-scares-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lrbc.org.uk\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/leigh-on-sea-what-scares-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh-on-Sea what scares you?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/75045602?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=79b829&amp;autoplay=0\" height=\"337\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vast armies undead do tread through the night and<br \/>\nIn hordes march towards hapless victims to frighten.<br \/>\nThey stumble in step with glass-eyes on the prizes;<br \/>\nBunched hither, hunched over in monstrous disguises;<br \/>\nIn sizes not lofty but numb\u2019ring a throng;<br \/>\nTo unleash on their prey the dreaded DING DONG.<br \/>\nSmall faces with traces of mother\u2019s eye-liner,<br \/>\nPeer up to the resident candy provider.<\/p>\n<p>And there to intone ancient threats learnt verbatim;<br \/>\nThey lisp \u201cTRICK OR TREAT!\u201d Tis their stark ultimatum.<br \/>\nThus: region by region such legions take plunder.<br \/>\nDoes this spector-full spectacle cause you to wonder?<br \/>\nJust how did our fair festive forebears conceive,<br \/>\nOf this primeval practice called All Hallows Eve?<br \/>\nThe answer, if anyone cares to research,<br \/>\nSurprises, it rises from old mother church.<\/p>\n<p>On the cusp of the customary All Saints Day<br \/>\nThe Christ-i-an kinsfolk made mocking display.<br \/>\nThese children of light both to tease and deride;<br \/>\nDon darkness, doll down as the sinister side.<br \/>\nIn pre-post-er-ous pageants and dress diabolic,<br \/>\nThey hand to the damned just one final frolick.<br \/>\nYou see with the light of the dawn on the morrow,<br \/>\nThe sunrise will swallow such darkness and sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The future is futile for forces of evil;<br \/>\nAnd so they did scorn them in times Medieval.<br \/>\nFor this is the nature of shadow and gloom;<br \/>\nIn the gleaming of glory there can be no room.<br \/>\nWhat force is resourced by the echoing black?<br \/>\nWhen the brightness ignites can the shadow push back?<br \/>\nThese \u2018powers\u2019 of darkness, if such can be called,<br \/>\nAre banished by brilliance, by blazing enthralled.<\/p>\n<p>So the bible begins with this fore-resolved fight;<br \/>\nFor a moment the darkness\u2026. then \u201cLet there be Light!\u201d<br \/>\nFirst grief in the gloom, then joy from the East.<br \/>\nFirst valley of shadow, then mountaintop feast.<br \/>\nFirst wait for Messiah, then long-promised Dawn.<br \/>\nFirst desolate Friday and then Easter Morn.<br \/>\nThe armies of darkness when doing their worst,<br \/>\nCan never extinguish this Dazzling Sunburst.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 ridicule rogues if you must play a role;<br \/>\nBut beware getting lost in that bottomless hole.<br \/>\nThe triumph is not with the forces of night.<br \/>\nIt dawned with the One who said \u201cI am the Light!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are always welcome to join with us as we explore each Sunday who Jesus the light who expels all darkness is.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast armies undead do tread through the night and In hordes march towards hapless victims to frighten. 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