LMH Pause for Thought Words and Music for week 3
In the Biblical tradition there is a powerful understanding that the whole of creation is shot through with the life of the eternal. That life itself is touched with the divine. It is easy to see that in the beauty of nature, and especially so in the spring of the year.
But it is more than just life, there is a sense in which alongside nature there is an understanding which imparts itself into life, and was present at the start of all life, and fills all life. The Book of Proverbs called this Wisdom, and this sense of wonder is present at the very moment of creation
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth—when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world’s first bits of soil. When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
Proverbs 8:22-30
The following lines are offered to us by Xon de Ros. They are from a Spanish poet (Antonio Machado, 1875-39), whose work is in the Spanish Prelims syllabus in the Faculty of Modern Languages. These fragments, published in 1924, capture the wonder and astonishment of those moments when we suddenly become aware of the strangeness , the beauty and the life that surrounds us. The translation is by the American Hispanist Alan S. Trueblood.
Take a few moments now to listen to this moment of sheer praise and wonder, sung for us by the LMH Choir
Blessings and peace for the week ahead.
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Created with images by sunflair - "spring snowdrop flower" • pixel2013 - "crocus flower wet"