Showing posts with label The World I Live In. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The World I Live In. Show all posts

Thursday, April 7, 2022

The World I Live In by Mary Oliver


A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver......


I have refused to live

locked in the orderly house of

     reasons and proofs.

The world I live in and believe in

is wider than that. And anyway,

     what’s wrong with Maybe?


You wouldn’t believe what once or

twice I have seen. I’ll just

     tell you this:

only if there are angels in your head will you

     ever, possibly, see one.


Making sense of what cannot be explained or proved

Interesting sermon today at mass given by one of the more enlightened priests in our parish. He has won over a lot of parishioners with his ...