I think this is my favorite line of all your poems so far: "O God / ashes rise too"
Also, "I lent the Lord my sin / Suspended" is a beautifully evocative paradox of the dual nature of Christ on the cross--stopping and suspending humankind's sins, but stopped and suspended by humankind's sins--nailed and motionless, trapped and killed by our sins, yet at the same time fixing and cleansing the sin's of the world.
It reminds me of what I heard Fr. Barron say when he spoke at Saint Dominic's Cathedral in San Francisco. He turned to the beautiful altar piece in that Church and gestured at the crucifix and said, "Friends, that is the picture of Christian freedom--that man nailed and hardly able to move on a cross. It is through him that we know freedom."
What a deep paradox! "I lent the Lord my sin / Suspended..."
I think this is my favorite line of all your poems so far:
ReplyDelete"O God / ashes rise too"
Also, "I lent the Lord my sin / Suspended" is a beautifully evocative paradox of the dual nature of Christ on the cross--stopping and suspending humankind's sins, but stopped and suspended by humankind's sins--nailed and motionless, trapped and killed by our sins, yet at the same time fixing and cleansing the sin's of the world.
It reminds me of what I heard Fr. Barron say when he spoke at Saint Dominic's Cathedral in San Francisco. He turned to the beautiful altar piece in that Church and gestured at the crucifix and said, "Friends, that is the picture of Christian freedom--that man nailed and hardly able to move on a cross. It is through him that we know freedom."
ReplyDeleteWhat a deep paradox! "I lent the Lord my sin / Suspended..."