Enlighten Radio Presents
"To Labor, and Not Seek Reward"
Janet introduces poems of Sainthood: The patron saints of Boredom, Sparrows, and Poetic Words have their special place. St Francis blesses the Sow.
Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 12/04/2024
by Malcolm Guite
The ordinary saints, the ones we know,
Our too-familiar family and friends,
When shall we see them? Who can truly show
Whilst still rough-hewn, the God who shapes our ends?
Who will unveil the presence, glimpse the gold
That is and always was our common ground,
Stretch out a finger, feel, along the fold
To find the flaw, to touch and search that wound
From which the light we never noticed fell
Into our lives? Remember how we turned
To look at them, and they looked back? That full-
-eyed love unselved us, and we turned around,
Unready for the wrench and reach of grace.
But one day we will see them face to face.
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