Sunny and blue sky morning, but lots of snow on the ground. 25 degrees. I like knowing that in six weeks it will be Easter, and Spring.
Here's a poem by Scott Cairns:
Possible Answers to Prayer
by Scott Cairns
Your petitions—though they continue to bear
just the one signature—have been duly recorded.
Your anxieties—despite their constant,
relatively narrow scope and inadvertent
entertainment value—nonetheless serve
to bring your person vividly to mind.
Your repentance—all but obscured beneath
a burgeoning, yellow fog of frankly more
conspicuous resentment—is sufficient.
Your intermittent concern for the sick,
the suffering, the needy poor is sometimes
recognizable to me, if not to them.
Your angers, your zeal, your lipsmackingly
righteous indignation toward the many
whose habits and sympathies offend you—
these must burn away before you’ll apprehend
how near I am, with what fervor I adore
precisely these, the several who rouse your passions.
Source: “Possible Answers to Prayer” from Philokalia: New and Selected
Poems, by Scott Cairns. Lincoln, Nebraska: Zoo Press, 2002.
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