Lent 2020 day 19

’I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.’ (Psalm 139:13-14)

Have a read of Gideon Heugh’s poem:

We too are shining born

I have heard a rumour –
a whisper from a distant hallelujah,
a lonely breath of light from a long-forgotten star
brushing against the remnant of our aching hearts
to tell us something beautiful, something scarcely believable:
we too are shining born, loved extravagantly
even as our soul-lights flicker
in the blast of an unkind world;
even in the midst of fading evidence still, so I hear,
a finer and more honest imagination than ours
declares us bright, worthy, and good.