I am the man who has seen affliction… (Lamentation 3:1) His portrait would have him serenely contemplating a garden, one hand raised beatifically like the saints of old. Often I would have my days like that, passed in that perfect serene of green, spirit quiet within like the waters without, no trouble straining pastoral brow.Continue reading “George Herbert at Bemerton”
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Lent 34: Monday of Fifth Week
Until the day when all’s made new: desolation; Temples fall. Before the shining of the Son: run into the hills. Until the brightness of the dawn: darkness seems to rule the day. Before the great Light of the World: wait, in patient hope.
The Consolations of Writing 