Posted by mountainmelody On 1/13/2009 08:03:00 PM
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes--
The rest sit around it and pluck blackberries.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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  1. Latane Barton said...
    http://mountainmelody.blogspot.com/2009/01/earths-crammed-with-heaven-and-every.html?showComment=1232032140000#c3945656824163031967'> 9:09 AM

    Having picked a bunch of blackberries in my lifetime this poem made me really step back and wonder. Was I just picking blackberries or did I also see the bush 'afire with God'? People need to stop and see the wonders of God.

     

  2. countrypeapie said...
    http://mountainmelody.blogspot.com/2009/01/earths-crammed-with-heaven-and-every.html?showComment=1232076960000#c6177722239336127815'> 9:36 PM

    I'm going to try to say what I mean without leaving an unbelievably long comment.

    I don't ascribe to one religion over another and I have trouble talking about or even using the word god because I think it means something different for me than it does for a lot of other people. But then I read a poem like this, and a blog like yours, and I think maybe I'm mistaken. Maybe we are talking about the same thing after all.

     

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