A Poem of Encouragement

Dear Meredyth,

Please know I'm thinking of you and praying for you way down here in Texas! When you are reading through these posts during your recovery time, I hope you realize how grateful the Nashotah community is for you.

I don't know if you're at all like me in this, but I always enjoy how poetry captures the mood so eloquently. One poem is by one of my favorites, TS Eliot, who in his poem "New Hampshire" describes the renewal of life. I hope you find it encouraging.

It is part of a series he did, and below the words is a recording of of Eliot himself reading it.

May God bless you during this difficult time and I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon!

In Christ,
Andy

Children's voices in the orchard

Between the blossom- and the fruit-time:

Golden head, crimson head,

Between the green tip and the root.

Black wing, brown wing, hover over;

Twenty years and the spring is over;

To-day grieves and to-morrow grieves,

Cover me over, light-in-leaves;

Golden head, black wing,

Cling, swing,

Spring, sing,

Swing up into the apple-tree.