We of this Fury: glory

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31 May 2010

before breaking

When the first light brightened the dark
Before the breaking of the human heart...

I love these lines. I thoroughly like this idea, this concept--"before the breaking of the human heart." Crazy to think of, no?

And yet, I am learning, learning.
Redemption is more than a future hope.
It is a present reality.

In this I mean, there is hope for the future.
And there is grace now. It [insert cheesy, overused metaphor for "astounds"] me.

May God be merciful when we ask to see His glory.

Mindful--Mary Oliver

Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less

kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle

in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen,

to lose myself
inside this soft world -
to instruct myself
over and over

in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant -
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,

the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help

but grow wise
with such teachings
as these -
the untrimmable light

of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?