Monday of Lent IV - Mercy
I fear God no more; I go forward to wander forever. In a wilderness made of God's infinite mercy alone.
Jessica Powers, Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, © 1989. Used by permission of Sheed and Ward, Kansas City, Missouri.
The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise. I returned from one walk knowing where the killdeer nests in the field by the creek and the hour the laurel blooms. I returned from the same walk a day later, scarcely knowing my own name. Litanies hum in my ears, my tongue flaps in my mouth Ailinon, alleluia!
Anne Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, © 1974. Published by Harper & Row.
