{"id":2033,"date":"2016-10-12T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:33","slug":"oct-12-quick-eyed-love-george-herbert-but-also-david-whyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/10\/12\/oct-12-quick-eyed-love-george-herbert-but-also-david-whyte\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 12 “quick-eyed Love” George Herbert —\tbut also David Whyte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday October 14 \u2014 \u201cWhat you can plan is too small for you to live\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening a book of poetry. \u00a0Turning pages until a poem catches your attention, stopping to read out loud. \u00a0 Pretty good way to start a day. \u00a0The David Whyte poem that caught my attention today speaks precisely about just such an experience, entering a day.<\/p>\n

Middle of the work week, have a blest Wednesday.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s post \u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0What to Remember When Waking<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sunset\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
\ncoming back to this life from the other
\nmore secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
\nwhere everything began,
\nthere is a small opening into the new day
\nwhich closes the moment you begin your plans.<\/p>\n

What you can plan is too small for you to live.
\nWhat you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough
\nfor the vitality hidden in your sleep.<\/p>\n

To be human is to become visible
\nwhile carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
\nTo remember the other world in this world
\nis to live in your true inheritance.<\/p>\n

You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
\nyou are not an accident amidst other accidents
\nyou were invited from another and greater night
\nthan the one from which you have just emerged.<\/p>\n

Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window
\ntoward the mountain presence of everything that can be
\nwhat urgency calls you to your one love?
\nWhat shape waits in the seed of you
\nto grow and spread its branches
\nagainst a future sky?<\/p>\n

Is it waiting in the fertile sea?
\nIn the trees beyond the house?
\nIn the life you can imagine for yourself?
\nIn the open and lovely white page on the writing desk?<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0David Whyte<\/a>\u00a0(Dec 30, 2013)<\/p>\n

\u2013 You can listen to the poem, though not read by the poet:\u00a0http:\/\/www.awakin.org\/read\/view.php?tid=994#sthash.3K2qfP1I.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n

p.s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of time on the road and a lot of company here at home have given way to days with more quiet in them; time to sort out details that accumulate in hustle times.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning, \u00a0I remember someone asking me to send her\/him a digital copy of George Herbert\u2019s \u201cLove Bade me Welcome\u201d (1633). \u00a0 \u00a0Here\u2019s the poem, it runs deep and creates a place of stillness if read out loud, as great poems do. \u00a0 It makes such a difference in my life. \u00a0 I like to post it now and then.<\/p>\n

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Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
\nGuilty of dust and sin.
\nBut quick-ey\u2019d Love, observing me grow slack
\nFrom my first entrance in,
\nDrew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
\nIf I lacked anything.
\n\u2018A guest,\u2019 I answer\u2019d,\u2019 worthy to be here\u2019:
\nLove said, \u2018You shall be he.\u2019
\n\u2018I, the unkind, ungrateful?\u00a0 Ah, my dear
\nI cannot look on Thee.\u2019
\nLove took my hand, and smiling did reply,
\n\u2018Who made the eyes but I?\u2019
\n\u201cTruth, Lord, but I have marr\u2019d them; let my shame
\nGo where it doth deserve.\u2019
\n\u2018And know you not,\u2019 says Love, \u2018who bore the blame?\u2019
\n\u2018My dear, then I will serve.\u2019
\n\u2018You must sit down,\u2019 says Love, \u2018and taste My meat.\u2019
\nSo I did sit and eat.<\/p>\n

George Herbert\u00a0 1633<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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