"Days pass when I forget the mystery"

Salisbury Cathedral

Good morning, all. I do intend to start posting about all the books I mentioned in yesterday's video. But first, I want to share this poem with you that has been on my mind the last couple of days. 

Days pass when I forget the mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their colored clothes; cap and bells.

And then

once more the quiet mystery 
is present to me, the throng's clamor
recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, 
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void: and that, O Lord, 
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
hour by hour sustain it.

~Denise Levertov: 'Primary Wonder'

Isn't it wonderful when we can clear our minds of all the little problems we use to distract ourselves from the awesome power that is God? A clear mind, fresh awe. Lord, help me to quiet my mind and fill my thoughts with Your quiet mystery once more.

Levertov, Denise. The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1975.