{"id":2093,"date":"2016-11-17T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:31","slug":"nov-17-hard-times-frightened-children-and-two-strong-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/11\/17\/nov-17-hard-times-frightened-children-and-two-strong-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 17 &#8211; hard times, frightened children, and two strong poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday November 17<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post takes the place of Wednesday &amp; Friday because I\u2019m on the road in California. \u00a0Back next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>. \u00a0 . \u00a0 . \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;out loud with pauses&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest weekend,<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>A life-long soul friend, wrote two days ago about this post from mid-October, \u201cThis is one of my favorites!\u201d \u00a0 It is a \u00a0strong two-poet post, alive with\u00a0wisdom for these battered days. \u00a0My soul friend often lives close with violated children and adults and hard times. \u00a0 When it comes to strong poems, I trust her judgment. \u00a0 Here\u2019s the post from\u00a0October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s post \u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>What to Remember When Waking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/10\/sunset.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2034\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/10\/sunset.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,<br \/>\ncoming back to this life from the other<br \/>\nmore secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world<br \/>\nwhere everything began,<br \/>\nthere is a small opening into the new day<br \/>\nwhich closes the moment you begin your plans.<\/p>\n<p>What you can plan is too small for you to live.<br \/>\nWhat you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough<br \/>\nfor the vitality hidden in your sleep.<\/p>\n<p>To be human is to become visible<br \/>\nwhile carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.<br \/>\nTo remember the other world in this world<br \/>\nis to live in your true inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>You are not a troubled guest on this earth,<br \/>\nyou are not an accident amidst other accidents<br \/>\nyou were invited from another and greater night<br \/>\nthan the one from which you have just emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window<br \/>\ntoward the mountain presence of everything that can be<br \/>\nwhat urgency calls you to your one love?<br \/>\nWhat shape waits in the seed of you<br \/>\nto grow and spread its branches<\/p>\n<p>against a future sky?<\/p>\n<p>Is it waiting in the fertile sea?<br \/>\nIn the trees beyond the house?<br \/>\nIn the life you can imagine for yourself?<br \/>\nIn the open and lovely white page on the writing desk?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awakin.org\/read\/index.php?op=author&amp;sel=David+Whyte\">David Whyte<\/a>\u00a0(Dec 30, 2013)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post # 2 \u00a0By George Herbert 1633<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,<br \/>\nGuilty of dust and sin.<br \/>\nBut quick-ey\u2019d Love, observing me grow slack<br \/>\nFrom my first entrance in,<br \/>\nDrew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,<br \/>\nIf I lacked anything.<br \/>\n\u2018A guest,\u2019 I answer\u2019d,\u2019 worthy to be here\u2019:<br \/>\nLove said, \u2018You shall be he.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018I, the unkind, ungrateful?\u00a0 Ah, my dear<br \/>\nI cannot look on Thee.\u2019<br \/>\nLove took my hand, and smiling did reply,<br \/>\n\u2018Who made the eyes but I?\u2019<br \/>\n\u201cTruth, Lord, but I have marr\u2019d them; let my shame<br \/>\nGo where it doth deserve.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018And know you not,\u2019 says Love, \u2018who bore the blame?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018My dear, then I will serve.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018You must sit down,\u2019 says Love, \u2018and taste My meat.\u2019<br \/>\nSo I did sit and eat.<\/p>\n<p>George Herbert\u00a0 1633<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday November 17 Today\u2019s post takes the place of Wednesday &amp; 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