Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Love Binding Eternal

I read on 19 July the following entry of George MacDonald's "The Diary of an Old Soul":

Thou far!--that word the holy truth doth blur.
Doth the great ocean from the small fish run
When it sleeps fast in its low weedy bower?
Is the sun far from any smallest flower,
That lives by his dear presence every hour?
Are they not one in oneness without stir--
The flower the flower because the sun the sun?

Today, nearly a month later, I distilled from these evocative verses into the essence of a Haiku:

God's love far yet near
Lilacs bloomed when light ascribed
Sun and life embraced


For the LORD GOD is a sun and shield: The LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
-- Psalm 84:10-12 NASB


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