On my day off last week I went to see “The King’s Speech” at the Midtown Theater. While I waited for the showing, I sat down at one of the tables and picked up a book the cafe has lying around instead of the usual magazines. It was a collection of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. This poem was in the section called “Love” and seems to have some connection to the day.
Enjoy, but it takes reading several times. I still only grasp pieces of it. That’s what is great about poems: you chew on them and turn them around and sleep on them. Which, for those of you who are working through the “Unbinding” prayer journal, is a bit like what we are doing with scripture.
Proof
That I did always love,
I bring thee proof:
That till I loved
I did not love enough.That I shall love alway,
I offer thee
That love is life,
And life hath immortality.This, dost thou doubt, sweet?
Then have I
Nothing to show
But Calvary.
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