Wednesday Self-Reflection
This sent me looking for an old favorite poem, which changed my answer about Holiness from ‘up there’ to ‘down deep in everything’:
God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
That's beautiful. :-)
Thank you for sharing that.
I try to find holiness wherever I go & usually find it in the most unexpected places. Often I'm surprised daily & it is often found within the characteristics mentioned of which transcends all else
I love this, especially the emphasis on being surprised daily.
This sent me looking for an old favorite poem, which changed my answer about Holiness from ‘up there’ to ‘down deep in everything’:
God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
That's beautiful. :-)
Thank you for sharing that.
I try to find holiness wherever I go & usually find it in the most unexpected places. Often I'm surprised daily & it is often found within the characteristics mentioned of which transcends all else
I love this, especially the emphasis on being surprised daily.