Thursday December 5<\/p>\n
Lots of scrambling these days inside and across our work lives. Here’s one of e.e. cummings’ poems praising the timeless beauty that underlies our generosities and the demands they make on us. It could be called an Advent poem, interrupting todays agenda with a call for attention and stillness.<\/p>\n
john sj<\/p>\n
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i am a little church (no great cathedral)
\nfar from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
\n–i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
\ni am not sorry when sun and rain make april<\/p>\n
my life is the life of the reaper and sower;
\nmy prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving
\n(finding and losing and laughing and crying) children
\nwhose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness<\/p>\n
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
\nbirth and glory and death and resurrection:
\nover my sleeping self float flaming symbols
\nof hope, and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains<\/p>\n
i am a little church(far from the frantic
\nworld with its rapture and anguish) at peace with nature
\n–i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
\ni am not sorry when silence becomes singing<\/p>\n
winter by spring, i lift my diminutive spire to
\nmerciful Him Whose only now is forever:
\nstanding erect in the deathless truth of His presence
\n(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)<\/p>\n
e. e. cummings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday December 5 Lots of scrambling these days inside and across our work lives. Here’s one of e.e. cummings’ poems praising the timeless beauty that underlies our generosities and the demands they make on us. It could be called an … Continue reading