{"id":2416,"date":"2017-09-29T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:46:47","slug":"sept-29-denise-levertov-no-effort-earns-that-all-surrounding-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/09\/29\/sept-29-denise-levertov-no-effort-earns-that-all-surrounding-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"sept 29 &#8211; Denise Levertov &#8220;no effort earns that all-surrounding grace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;September 29 \u00a0\u201cso would I learn to attain<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;freefall . . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This Friday begins the university homecoming weekend, \u00a0races and games, alums meeting across generations; \u00a0September ends with storytelling and singing, with good food and drink. \u00a0 Most of all, perhaps, with sacred playful \u00a0remembering.<\/p>\n<p>This deceptively simple poem teaches me again, as Levertov often does, that simple language can open my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings on these two days.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/The-Avowal\">The Avowal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As swimmers dare<br \/>\nto lie face to the sky<br \/>\nand water bears them,<br \/>\nas hawks rest upon air<br \/>\nand air sustains them,<br \/>\nso would I learn to attain<br \/>\nfreefall, and float<br \/>\ninto Creator Spirit\u2019s deep embrace,<br \/>\nknowing no effort earns<br \/>\nthat all-surrounding grace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2002\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov.jpg 186w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/09\/Denise-Levertov-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denise Levertov<br \/>\nb. October 1923 \u00a0d. December 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;September 29 \u00a0\u201cso would I learn to attain &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;freefall . . . &#8221; This Friday begins the university homecoming weekend, \u00a0races and games, alums meeting across generations; \u00a0September ends with storytelling and singing, with good food and drink. \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/09\/29\/sept-29-denise-levertov-no-effort-earns-that-all-surrounding-grace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}