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Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen
justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c.
justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c.
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end?
Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,
How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost
Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust
Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend,
Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and brakes
Now, leavèd how thick! lacèd they are again
With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes
Them; birds build – but not I build; no, but strain,
Time’s eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
I love that poem. I think that last line fairly frequently.
Due to recent eye surgery, I have to look down all the time for a few days. In order that I may do my work without looking up, my monitor is lying flat on its back on my desk, and this is working fairly well, but, of course, it’s not ideal. Because of the angle at which I see the screen, most things are a different color than usual. The above picture is pretty amazing. the sky is pretty much the same blue, the rocks are on fire.
AMDG
Janet, swift healing to your eyes through Saints Raphael and Lucy!
Thank you for sharing the detail about the unexpected, accidental benefit of viewing your monitor at its strange angle. He truly does father-forth Whose beauty is past change.
Thanks! I pray to St. Lucy and Raphael almost everyday–Lucy about the eyes, but Raphael mostly about the unmarried daughter. 😉
Doctor today. Hopefully I’ll get my walking papers–seeing papers?
AMDG
What did the doctor say?
He said, “Look up. Sleep on your back. Everything looks good. Come back in 2-3 weeks.” Basically everything I wanted to hear. So, after a year of operations and doctor visits, I got home and found this in my mailbox. (Scroll down a bit-no need to read.
Thanks for asking.
AMDG
Ah, the joker God.
He laughs at me all the time–all the time.
AMDG
cf. the last sentence of Chesterton’s Orthodoxy
So, you think He went up on the mountain and put His face in His hands and said, “Father, you just won’t believe what Peter said today!”?
AMDG