more thoughts on Mary Oliver

The past few classes have been focused on nature. I never really focused on the bible having so much nature poetry in it. But it has been good to read different texts pertaining to nature. We read the short poems from Mary Oliver too. My favorite sections were six recognitions of the Lord and musical notations. I felt like these poems were a lot more accessible to me than the other poems we read. When we went outside to the lake, I found one of the quotes interesting to me when Corrigan was reading it out loud. “When I first found you, I was filled with light, now the darkness grows and it is filled with crooked things, bitter and weak, each one bearing my name.” When I heard that, I actually thought of myself. And for some reason, I liked the musical notation section. I did not understand it all the way but I still liked it. One of the lines said, “The luna moth, who lives but I few days, but sometimes only a few hours has a pale green wing whose rim looks like a musical notation. Have you noticed?” I didn’t even know what a luna moth was so I googled it. To be honest, I really could not see the musical notation. I was kind of disappointed but that just showed me that poetry really is someone else own interpretation of something even if it seems way off..

I started reading The Spirit of God Hovered. The first few paragraphs were pretty powerful. Why wouldn’t a parent question God for their son or daughters disability? In the text, the Steve Fettke said that having a son disabled from birth, caused him to question things that had to do with creation. As I was reading it, I thought of a cool story that a pastor told at a conference about a disabled child. Also what comes to mind is john 9:3. Look it up :-)