And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then heaven tries earth if it be in tune;
and over it softly its warm ear lays
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,
We are happy now because God wills it.
We shut our eyes, but we can’t help knowing,
That skies are clear, and the grass is growing.
Excerpts from James Russell Lowell’s “What is so rare as a day in June?”
Summer beckons with the promise of swimming, a picnic in the park, an afternoon spent at the beach, or the long-awaited trip to Disneyland. O, what Joy lies just ahead.
Really it is a time to kick back and relax, to unwind from the hurry and tussle of our everyday world, and find time for ourselves.
I think of daydreaming. Letting the mind roam freely with nothing in view. Someone recently wrote, “The best daydreams just happen, serendipitously, as we’re doing something else – the brain sort of slipping its leash for a random walk around”.
Our problem is that when we do sit there “doing nothing’ someone will find something for us to do because “you’re not busy anyway”.
Or our lives are constantly interrupted with twitter and text messaging and other busy work.
May I suggest for these days a time to sit down in a quiet place and reading through the book of Ephesians. Imagine yourself in that early church reading or hearing that read for the first time. Thinking what the words and the teachings laid out there really mean for you and me in this day.
Look at some of the words again. “You were dead” now “made alive in Christ” 2,1. Think of what you were 2,3.
“BUT God, rich in mercy
Made you alive, by grace are you saved:”. 2,4.5.
What a warm comforting message to dream with and thank God for.
May your daydreams include such a direction for God’s glory.
GPD 6/7/12
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