Poetics of Prayer

Picture of a Nativity By Geoffrey Hill

Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils,
Ribs, keels, coral sores,
Detached faces, ephemeral oils,
Discharged on the world’s outer shores,

A dumb child-king Arrives at his right place; rests,
Undisturbed, among slack serpents; beasts
With claws flesh-buttered. In the gathering

Of bestial and common hardship
Artistic men appear to worship And fall down; to recognize Familiar tokens; believe their own eyes.

Above the marvel, each rigid head,
Angels, their unnatural wings displayed,
Freeze into an attitude Recalling the dead.

Finished reading: How Children Raise Parents by Dan B. Allender 📚

Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿

Finished reading: The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul 📚

7 Heavens

“The heavens declare the glory of God…”

AND

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“The music of the spheres”…As juxtaposed by Michael Ward.

Finished reading: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer 📚

Currently reading: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer 📚

Pasta studies with the 3yo sous chef in the kitchen this evening.