Gloria

Poem by Harvey Gillman

A poetic meditation inspired by Isaac Pennington

Submit to the light, they said.
Open your eyes to its glory.
It will show, purge, strengthen you; direct your feet.

My friend, give over your willing,
give over your desiring, sink to the seed,
which God sows in your heart.
It will grow, breath, act in you.

Open your eyes to the splendour of small things,
to the glory that is in your tired and bruised heart,
to the glory that is those you meet each day,
the tired, the bruised, the broken,
the spat at, the thrown out,
the glory that is the Spirit’s light
buried in all flesh, buried in all matter,
in the heart of the ocean
on the peak of the mountain.

Open your eyes to the opened tomb,
the new harvest, the land whose rivers are the rivers of healing.

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