Spiritual Sunday
I love this simple Wendell Berry poem, which functions as a prayer. I pair it up with a favorite painting of mine that gets at the intimate relationship between a father and a son. The loving bond between Joseph and Jesus so moved me as a young father that I framed it and put in my son Darien’s room. Darien in turn has put it my grandson Alban’s room.
Love keeps the candle alight in the face of the wind.
I know that I have life
only insofar as I have love.
I have no love
except it come from Thee.
Help me, please, to carry
this candle against the wind.
(from This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected & New, 1979-2013, Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2013)