Today is Earth Day. I had intended to write a post at some point over the Easter Weekend but I was pooped! Having spent most of last week recuperating from my Turkey jet-lag I found the round of special services to celebrate the many dimensions of Easter tired me out all over again. So I took yesterday to sleep in and the just do some easy and mindless tasks around the house. But it is a happy coincidence that this day, when I now have time to write, is also Earth Day as the poem I wanted to offer you for Easter reflection also works for Earth Day.
I was first introduced to this poem by Michael, a member of our congregation who, to my grief, passed away a couple of years ago. He shared this at a Book Club gathering one December. I have loved it ever since. Enjoy!
“i thank You God for most this amazing”
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
~e.e. cummings 1894-1962
