Incoming: a very delayed reflection from Spring. It makes me wonder if I am the same person I was then? So much has changed in the littlest of ways, and I am exuberant in light of such development. Life has been good, and God has been such a blessing in my life. Even amidst life’s struggles and prayers for breakthroughs, I am constantly reminded that I have a saviour I can rely on.
Today, I thought of E.E Cumming’s “I thank you God for this amazing”, one of my beloved poems as a teenager. As strange as it sounds, I remember wanting so desperately to understand the true meaning behind his words, and forgetting about these words for the next two decades of my life – merely remembering the last stanza until today, until today.
I am aware this is likely the first time in the short history of this journal that I am professing my faith so loudly, even thought it has been years! It matters not because the heart of my heart is awake and that is all that matters.
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
Denise Taw 