"Up through an empty house of stars,
Being what heart you are,
Up the inhuman steeps of space,
As on a staircase go in grace,
Carrying the firelight on your face,
Beyond the loneliest star." G.K. Chesterton
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The Awe And The Joy
Well folks, I've never linked you to another post by someone else and sent you on to read that, but I feel this one is worth your time. Anya has hit the nail on the head and I couldn't have done it any better than she did, even if I did trust myself to try explaining such an indescribable thing. Please stop by and read her beautiful post about the awe and the joy.
Seize The Day!
-StrongJoy
3 comments:
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I'm afraid that your opinion of my intelligence is about to go way down... *cough*... you see, I came over to your blog and saw the title and thought, "Oh my! She posted about the same thing I did!" And yes, I had already read your comment saying that you were linking to me... *me smacking myself in the head*
Anyway, thank you! Especially for your kind words, even more than the link. :) It was great talking with you today.
Good, I think you'll enjoy A Severe Mercy... it will probably also make you cry, but... oh well.
I have that Starfield CD! Yes, I think they are a little more mature than Relient K... Starfield has some very beautiful music, very worshipful.
I will read The Ballad of the White Horse soon. :) You and Raora have given it such glowing recommendations that I'm convinced I'll have no peace at all until I do. ^_^
Sisters can be a lot of fun to read with. Miss Dance and I were laughing ourselves silly yesterday over passages in My Family and Other Animals.
"I have committed myself to joy...we must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum-dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, SOMEONE MUST BELIEVE IN JOY." -Richard Rohr
Poetry
THE GREAT MINIMUM by G.K. Chesterton
It is something to have wept as we have wept, It is something to have done as we have done, It is something to have watched when all men slept, And seen the stars which never see the sun.
It is something to have smelt the mystic rose, Although it break and leave the thorny rods, It is something to have hungered once as those Must hunger who have ate the bread of gods.
To have seen you and your unforgotten face, Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray, Pure as white lilies in a watery space, It were something, though you went from me today.
To have known the things that from the weak are furled, Perilous ancient passions, strange and high; It is something to be wiser than the world, It is something to be older than the sky.
In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts, And fattened lives that of their sweetness tire In a world of flying loves and fading lusts, It is something to be sure of a desire.
Lo, blessed are our ears for they have heard; Yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen: Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird And the lightning. It is something to have been.
3 comments:
I'm afraid that your opinion of my intelligence is about to go way down... *cough*... you see, I came over to your blog and saw the title and thought, "Oh my! She posted about the same thing I did!" And yes, I had already read your comment saying that you were linking to me... *me smacking myself in the head*
Anyway, thank you! Especially for your kind words, even more than the link. :) It was great talking with you today.
Good, I think you'll enjoy A Severe Mercy... it will probably also make you cry, but... oh well.
I have that Starfield CD! Yes, I think they are a little more mature than Relient K... Starfield has some very beautiful music, very worshipful.
I will read The Ballad of the White Horse soon. :) You and Raora have given it such glowing recommendations that I'm convinced I'll have no peace at all until I do. ^_^
Sisters can be a lot of fun to read with. Miss Dance and I were laughing ourselves silly yesterday over passages in My Family and Other Animals.
Have a lovely day!
~An
Wow! That picture is SO beautiful!!!
Thanks so much for the post!!!
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