Well here it is 2011! I will start it out with a simple sonnet I read this morning by George Herbert, titled "Prayer."
Prayer, the Church's banquet, Angels" age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth;
Engine against th'Almighty, sinners' tower,
Reversed thunder, Christ - side - piercing - spear,
The six-days' world-transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well dressed,
The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
The land of spices; something understood.
So as I start 2011 out, first and most essential to me will be to PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, more earnestly with reversed thunder and profound gratitude for all that has been given to me!!!
