One Household – Apr. 23, 2021
The dark around us, come,let us meet here together,members one of another,here in our holy room,Here on our little floor,here in the daylit sky,rejoicing mind and eye,rejoining known and knower,Light, leaf, foot, hand, and wing,such order as we know,one household, high and low,and all the earth shall sing. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “X”, p. 58
O Dust, Arise! – Apr. 22, 2021
The clearing rests in song and shade,it is a creature madeby old light held in soil and leaf,by human joy and grief,by human work,fidelity of sight and stroke,by rain, by water onthe parent stone.We join our work to Heaven’s gift,our hope to what is left,that field and woods at last agreein an economyof widest worth,High […]
Sabbath Grace – Apr. 21, 2021
Six days of work are spentto make a Sunday quietthat Sabbath may return.It comes in unconcern;we cannot earn or buy it.Suppose rest is not sentor comes and goes unknown,the light, unseen, unshown.Suppose the day beginsin wrath at circumstance,or anger at one’s friendsin vain self-innocencefalse to the very light,breaking the sun in half,or anger at oneselfwhose […]
Left to Grace – Apr. 20, 2021
Whatever is foreseen in joymust be lived out from day to day.Vision held open in the darkby our ten thousand days of work.Harvest will fill the barn; for thatthe hand must ache, the face must sweat.And yet no leaf or grain is filledby work of ours; the field is tilledand left to grace. That we […]
