girltheology

As promised... here is a picture of one of my two churches. It's Grace United Church in Loverna, SK. I don't have much to say, but will leave you with yet another e.e. cummings poem:


i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and
squalor of hurrying cities
--i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april

my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily
striving (finding and losing and laughing and crying) children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness

around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols of hope,
and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

i am a little church(far from the frantic world with its
rapture and anguish) at peace with nature
--i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing

winter by spring, i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)


95 Poems,
77 - e.e. cummings