Three (More) Mid-Week Things

The days are passing so quickly, and in such a deed-laden manner, that it's Wednesday again. Who'd have thought it? All my profundity was used up in farewelling the Year Twelves, so I'm simply going to post some edifying tidbits again and hope for something original next week. (Because I find one needs leisure to be original.)



1. The follow-up article to last week: reading novels as a theological act of worship, in reaction to the progress of modern society.




2. The Waking - Theodore Roethke


I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.



3. It's a little old now, but I love Megan Washington's How to Tame Lions.