He Will Keep Watch
July 5, 2005 Posted by Amy Hall
Micah rightly pointed out yesterday that we do not always experience the delight of God. There are times when we can only persevere and trust that God will again revive us. I was reminded of this poem by C.S. Lewis from The Pilgrim's Regress that I've been meaning to post:
My heart is empty. All the fountains that should run
With longing, are in me
Dried up. In all my countryside there is not one
That drips to find the sea.
I have no care for anything thy love can grant
Except the moment's vain
And hardly noticed filling of the moment's want
And to be free from pain.
Oh, thou that art unwearying, that dost neither sleep
Nor slumber, who didst take
All care for Lazarus in the careless tomb, oh keep
Watch for me till I wake.
If thou think for me what I cannot think, if thou
Desire for me what I
Cannot desire, my soul's interior Form, though now
Deep-buried, will not die,
–No more than the insensible dropp'd seed which grows
Through winter ripe for birth
Because, while it forgets, the heaven remembering throws
Sweet influence still on earth,
–Because the heaven, moved moth-like by thy beauty, goes
Still turning round the earth.
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July 9th, 2005 at 12:42 am
Great blog! I just started a seven-woman team blog which is hosted by The Evangelical Outpost. Hope you'll visit! (I'm going to add you to our blogroll)
Marla
July 9th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
More women apologist-bloggers–this is great! I'll be reading your blog!