Monday, June 25, 2012

Monday Prayer: God's Grandeur



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.




Gerard Manley Hopkins

2 comments:

Dorcas (aka SingingOwl) said...

Lovely!

Brittany said...

Thanks for praying for Baby L (and to Dorcas for asking!). He was finally able to have surgery on Sunday to remove the blockage. The surgery went well. Baby L came through just fine and is expected to be able to keep the food down now. Yay! The whole family so appreciates your prayers.