Oct 13: Day by Day with Father Bill
TUESDAY OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT
How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The lines flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart;
the sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.
-the Irish poet, Derek Mahon (1941-202
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