Comments on: Counsel to the Christian Traveller – Put Your Hand to the Plow http://gatheringinlight.com/2009/03/23/counsel-to-the-christian-traveller-put-your-hand-to-the-plow/ Current Blog Project: Six Months With a Quaker Preacher Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:08:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: C. Wess Daniels http://gatheringinlight.com/2009/03/23/counsel-to-the-christian-traveller-put-your-hand-to-the-plow/comment-page-1/#comment-72245 C. Wess Daniels Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:36:17 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/?p=1826#comment-72245 Chris - I haven't said anything to Charles about it. But I am sure he'd like to know. Chris – I haven’t said anything to Charles about it. But I am sure he’d like to know.

]]> By: Chris Mohr http://gatheringinlight.com/2009/03/23/counsel-to-the-christian-traveller-put-your-hand-to-the-plow/comment-page-1/#comment-72241 Chris Mohr Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:33:34 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/?p=1826#comment-72241 Wess, I'm going to let Charles know you posted this, in case you haven't already. Simon, that poem is stunning! Wess, I’m going to let Charles know you posted this, in case you haven’t already.

Simon, that poem is stunning!

]]> By: Simon http://gatheringinlight.com/2009/03/23/counsel-to-the-christian-traveller-put-your-hand-to-the-plow/comment-page-1/#comment-72227 Simon Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:50:38 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/?p=1826#comment-72227 "... I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you ..." 'The Bright Field' by R. S. Thomas “… I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying

on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you …”

‘The Bright Field’ by R. S. Thomas

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