Spiritual Sunday I share today a good Lenten poem by Denise Levertov where the poet finds herself in a funk, albeit not a dramatic funk. She’s experiencing neither a “dark night of the soul” nor a scorching wasteland desert, those extreme moments of crisis that have pushed people to revelation. (Today’s Gospel reading is Jesus’s […]
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Lent: The Air Heavy and Thick
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O World Inapprehensible, We Clutch Thee
Poet Francis Thompson, desperately seeking for God, imagines that Jesus can be found as readily on the Thames as on the Sea of Galilee.
Fleeing God (a.k.a. the Hound of Heaven)
Francis Thompson’s huanting “Hound of Heaven” captures the fears who of those who think of themselves as unworthy of love.
