Presence: A word for today

Presence “The world is charged with the grandeur of God…”

The Advent Word of the Day is Presence. God is Presence, Presence is God in and of, with and through every blade, boulder and breathing being. To experience saturating Presence requires just one thing, trust. Trust that the world and all therein is wrought of primordial Presence. Nothing is not holy. In this we can wholy put our trust.

God’s Grandeur
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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