My New English Bible and 100 selected poems of e.e. cummings sit side
by side on my bookshelf. I open the Bible and find the foundational,
inspired word of God to lead me. I then open the poems, and
find an inspirational human tribute
to God. I am at peace and inspired as I go through my
daily tasks during these days when spring seems to be just around the
bend.
- Psalm 98...Sing a new song to the Lord....acclaim the Lord, all people on earth...Let the rivers clap their hands, let the hills sing aloud together before the Lord; for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples in justice.
- Poem 95 by e.e. cummings....i thank You God for this most 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.
I first read the Psalm and the Poem out loud, then I memorize them, then I try to become them, with the essence of God's spirit breathing within me.
My prayer is that these devotional sonnets may inspire you as you walk in the spirit of God.
