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I’m
thankful for hard floors that remind you that even a bed is a privilege.
I’m
thankful for a wife who loves in sickness and in health, not only when I am
sick, but when she is as well.
I’m
thankful for lazy days reading comics next to an oscillating fan.
I’m
thankful for compatriots at work who smile after long days.
I’m
thankful for the breath of God in my homeland.
I’m
thankful for relatives who put up with the ebb and flow of my affections.
I’m
thankful for church kids who see the joy in slavery.
I’m
thankful for a job with annual rhythms.
I’m
thankful for the durability of long-finned zebra danios.
I’m
thankful for God granting a season of rest and renewal. |
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| THE LANTERN OUT OF DOORS
Sometimes a lantern moves along the night,
That interests our eyes. And who goes there?
I think; where from and bound, I wonder, where,
With, all down darkness wide, his wading light?
Men go by me whom either beauty bright
In mould or mind or what not else makes rare:
They rain against our much-thick and marsh air
Rich beams, till death or distance buys them quite.
Death or distance soon consumes them: wind
What most I may eye after, be in at the end
I cannot, and out of sight is out of mind.
Christ minds: Christ's interest, what to avow or amend
there, eyes them, heart wants, care haunts, foot follows kind,
Their ransom, their rescue, and first, fast, last friend.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fourteen years ago on this night, my forearms rested on the wooden side of a bed and knees knelt on carpet, I surrendered to a fearsome and loyal Unknown, that has since every day made Himself more known by shades to this blind man.
For the next fourteen, until I'm forty, I pray He take me out of doors with Him.
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| I haven't put much in this blog over the five or six months. Part of the reason is that I have been much more tired in the last few months, more tired than... maybe than ever. Physically tired. Just... needing to sleep more, or nap, or something like that. So if you're kind enough to check in here now and then or subscribed, sorry I've been missing for so long. Just... tired. Hope it's temporary. |
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| Comment if you want to read and talk about this book with me. If you can get this translation, it's really good.
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