tuesday of the second week in lent

Date: Tuesday, February27
Contributor: Lyn Lawyer
Lectionary Link  https://www.lectionarypage.net/WeekdaysOfLent/TuesdaySecondWeek.html
 
Today is the feast day of George Herbert, an English orator, poet, and priest in the 1600’s who spent many years as the rector of St. Peter’s, Fugglestone just outside of Salisbury, where he was well loved. His story is well worth studying to learn what being a servant of Christ is all about. Look him up in Wikipedia. Here is one of my favorite poems of his.  Enjoy and ponder!
 
LOVE
LOVE bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
            Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
    From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
            If I lack’d anything.
‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’
            Love said, ‘You shall be he.’
‘I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear,
            I cannot look on Thee.’
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
            ‘Who made the eyes but I?’
‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame
            Go where it doth deserve.’
‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?’
            ‘My dear, then I will serve.’
‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’
            So I did sit and eat.