words/click (christopher lyon)
October 19, 2020
Wendell Berry capturing the feeling of desperate, stubborn, faithful prayer in the ever-quotable Jayber Crow:
“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.”
October 14, 2020
Who could have imagined
The maker of time
Waiting
Who could have seen
The God of justice
Eager to give grace
Why does the Father
Watch for his children
To stop dreaming up solutions
Pale and powerless
And to return
To the waiting place
How could we know
He would be exalted
By His mercy
More than by our best attempts
To exalt ourselves
In His name
