Sunday Night Journal, April 16, 2017
04/16/2017
A happy, peaceful, and blessed Easter to all who are celebrating it today. As John Donne says in his sonnet "Resurrection," "Salute the last and everlasting day."
Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul
Shall—though she now be in extreme degree
Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—be
Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul,
And life by this death abled shall control
Death, whom Thy death slew; nor shall to me
Fear of first or last death bring misery,
If in Thy life-book 1 my name thou enroll.
Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified,
But made that there, of which, and for which it was;
Nor can by other means be glorified.
May then sin’s sleep and death soon from me pass,
That waked from both, I again risen may
Salute the last and everlasting day.
The first and last lines are italicized because this is one of a sequence of seven sonnets called "La Corona," and the last line of each is the first of the next. (You can read the whole sequence, which is well worth your time, at Luminarium.org.)
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Not the normal Easter flower--oleander, which doesn't even bloom now. But I like the picture.
Thanks for this. A blessed Easter season to you.
Posted by: Mary | 04/18/2017 at 03:10 PM
You're welcome and thank you.
Posted by: Mac | 04/18/2017 at 04:52 PM
Thanks, Mac. Hope everyone had a blessed Easter and is enjoying Bright Week!
Posted by: Rob G | 04/19/2017 at 06:18 AM
Happy Easter to all
Posted by: Quite Grumpy | 04/19/2017 at 07:09 AM
Thank you, and same to you, and to Rob. I'm sorry to hear that you are apparently more than a little grumpy.
Posted by: Mac | 04/19/2017 at 08:21 AM
Happy Easter, everyone.
How's the leg, Grumpy?
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/19/2017 at 10:22 AM
Happy Easter, y'all.
I love Oleanders.
Posted by: Louise | 04/19/2017 at 03:24 PM
It was getting better and the physical therapust said I could do the camino. I started to train for two days and then imy leg started to hurt like hell. That was friday. I've tried resting and everything but is been hurting now for five days and I don't know what to do
Posted by: Quite Grumpy | 04/19/2017 at 03:58 PM
Very sorry to hear that, Grumpy.
Posted by: Louise | 04/19/2017 at 04:12 PM
I've been wondering. And adding to my daily prayers that you (QG) will be able to do the Camino.
Those oleanders, alas, are no more. They had gotten out of control and way too big for the space they were in so we finally cut them down. I miss them--there were two, a white and a red.
Posted by: Mac | 04/19/2017 at 07:52 PM
I never knew what oleanders looked like before.
Prayers for you, Grumpy.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/19/2017 at 08:10 PM
They're very pretty. That picture is just the ends of a couple of branches on a bush that was at least 10 feet tall and about as big around. And it would be covered with those white blossoms.
Posted by: Mac | 04/19/2017 at 08:30 PM
Thanks for the prayers. Our hope this year is to do the Portughese route so Im praying to FrNcisco and Jacinta Marto to make me able to do it
Posted by: Quite Grumpy | 04/19/2017 at 08:52 PM
I don't think I've heard those saints' names before. I'll look them up.
Posted by: Mac | 04/20/2017 at 08:11 AM
Children of Fatima. I'll be going to Santiago and Fatima myself this summer, but not on foot!
Posted by: Paul | 04/20/2017 at 02:05 PM
Oh yeah, I should have recognized Jacinta. I think I just mentally skipped over "FrNcisco". :-)
Posted by: Mac | 04/20/2017 at 03:51 PM
That's great, Paul. Is your family going? Are you going for the anniversary?
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/20/2017 at 08:06 PM
Wife and children. Not for the anniversary.
Posted by: Paul | 04/21/2017 at 02:37 PM
I meant the 100th anniversary of Fatima. ;-)
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/21/2017 at 03:16 PM
That's what I meant too. It's only a few weeks away now, isn't it? We'll be going in July.
Posted by: Paul | 04/21/2017 at 03:57 PM
Someday I will learn to communicate. Likely it won't be in combines on my Kindle.
Or before I am in heaven.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 04/21/2017 at 06:25 PM