To understand Judeo-Christian scripture we need an appreciation for poetry and imagination (but not calling it imaginary). I read recently to read a poem a day. I have not been a fan of poetry early in my life, but have grown so more as I have gotten older and the more I read and reflect on scripture in community (public group reading as most of it was originally intended). So I am going to attempt to regularly post poetry in my status. I plan to get the new book by former US poet laureate Rita Dove (alum of neighboring Buchtel HS) of an anthology of poetry of the 20th Century.
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
— Wendell Berry
