“five crows in a lawn this morning, / I can be like them, dark and picking at the earth, / ever after sustenance…”
Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry sings of the beauties of God to be found in the created world. Read these poems carefully and let them help point your affections to God when you look out on the world He has made.
“Glory be to God for changes.”
I found myself thinking recently about something Denis Haack said at a L’abri Conference: “If you are too busy for wonder, you are too busy.” I find it so easy to be practical in my daily life. I drive my car. I breath the air. I am awakened by the sun in my window in the morning. I [...]
Rinsed with Gold, Endless, Walking the Fields By Robert Siegel Flourish magazine, Fall 2010 Let this day’s air praise the Lord— Rinsed with gold, endless, walking the fields, Blue and bearing the clouds like censers, Holding the sun like a single note Running through all things, a basso profundo Rousing the birds to an [...]
By John Leax Flourish magazine, Summer 2010 Here Here is the place of order made by daily labor. Against bright sky, the house, limned by spruce and larch, grown old in weathered caring, stands white. Beyond its shadow, the garden lies down in rows stretched fondly on the earth. Forsythia and honeysuckle, lilac, lily, and [...]
Tomorrow marks the start of fall. According to poet Rainer Maria Rilke, it’s about time.
Two poems from poet Debra Rienstra on the tenderness and determination of spring. “…this keeper/ of unlikely things, tender of promises/ more than fulfilled.”
“We want … an end to all our wanting.”
Jon Silvius reflects on a life of creation care in service to God.
This poem by Anne Porter is a quiet, but exuberant, reminder that today we give thanks with all of creation for God’s good gifts.
A poem in honor of Renewal’s Day of Prayer for God’s Creation.
Stewardship and gratitude must be our responses to the grace that, as Wendell Berry writes in his poem “Wild Geese,” “what we need is here.”
Natural beauty in the mundane: Works by Jarbas Agnelli and Mary Oliver
