Aflevering 'To Live With The Spirit' - Jessica Powers

Leuk dat je luistert naar The Soul in Paraphrase. Het gedicht voor deze week voorafgaand aan Pinksteren is 'To Live with the Spirit' van Jessica Powers (uit 1949): 'To live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener. It is to keep the vigil of mystery, earthless and still. One leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit, strange as the wind’s will. The soul that walks where the wind of the Spirit blows turns like a wandering weather-vane toward love. It may lament like Job or Jeremiah, echo the wounded hart, the mateless dove. It may rejoice in spaciousness of meadow that emulates the freedom of the sky. Always it walks in waylessness, unknowing; it has cast down forever from its hand the compass of the whither and the why. To live with the Spirit of God is to be a lover. It is becoming love, and like to Him toward Whom we strain with metaphors of creatures: fire-sweep and water-rush and the wind’s whim. The soul is all activity, all silence; and though it surges Godward to its goal, it holds, as moving earth holds sleeping noonday, the peace that is the listening of the soul.' We zijn benieuwd naar wat je van deze podcast vindt. Laat het weten via Instagram (@the_soul_in_paraphrase) of via een review in je podcast-app. Bedankt!