Lent Devotional: Openනියැදිය

Day five – ‘Look, look!’

Each Sunday, we will share a poem with you. Treat this as a Sabbath day. Go slow; be still; be open to what the Holy Spirit might say.

A few easy moments taken in the sun;

three small birds blessing me with their songs;

each with their charming particularity;

each showing (and I'd bet my life upon it)

that they are in possession of a soul;

each repeating (and I beg you to listen)

precisely the same refrain:

Look, look, it is spring, it is spring!

Look, look! Life is rising from beneath the ground.

The green river is flowing, the green river is flowing!

It is ready to burst its banks.

The poem is © Gideon Heugh, from Rumours of Light.

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