Weekly Inspiration (7/7/23)

Quote of the Week

“A life of faith is a life of continual growth, but not necessarily in the way we want or expect. God’s way is greater than our own, and divine things will always be beyond our comprehension. We can’t truly know what God is up to in our lives, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t take part in the divine plan for the renewal of all of God’s creation.”

-Br. Michael Hardgrove  
Society of Saint John the Evangelist 

Poem of the Week

From a Window
by: Christian Wiman
 
Incurable and unbelieving
in any truth but the truth of grieving,
 
I saw a tree inside a tree
rise kaleidoscopically
 
as if the leaves had livelier ghosts.
I pressed my face as close
 
to the pane as I could get
to watch that fitful, fluent spirit
 
that seemed a single being undefined
or countless beings of one mind
 
haul its strange cohesion
beyond the limits of my vision
 
over the house heavenwards.
Of course I knew those leaves were birds.
 
Of course that old tree stood
exactly as it had and would
 
(but why should it seem fuller now?)
and though a man's mind might endow
 
even a tree with some excess
of life to which a man seems witness,
 
that life is not the life of men.
And that is where the joy came in.