Thursday, May 10, is the Feast of the Ascension this year...and so we pause to reflect with a sonnet that is as much prayer and praise as poem.
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| Christi Himmelfahrt - Gebhard Fugel, c. 1893 |
Ascension Day
We saw his light break through the cloud of glory
Whilst we were rooted still in time and place,
As earth became a part of heaven's story
And heaven opened to his human face.
We saw him go and yet we were not parted,
He took us with him to the heart of things,
The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted
Is whole and heaven-centred now, and sings;
Sings in the strength that rises out of weakness,
Sings through the clouds that veil him from our sight,
Whilst we ourselves become his clouds of witness
And sing the waning darkness into light;
His light in us, and ours in him concealed,
Which all creation waits to see revealed.
-- Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons
You can listen to the poet read this aloud HERE.
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