Grace Comes Quietly

Scripture  

Lamentations 3:21–26 (NRSV)  

But this I call to mind,  

and therefore I have hope:  

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,  

His mercies never come to an end;  

they are new every morning;  

great is Your faithfulness.  

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,  

“therefore I will hope in Him.”  

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,  

to the soul that seeks Him.  

It is good that one should wait quietly  

for the salvation of the Lord.

Refrain  

Grace comes quietly 

and fills me with breath.

Quote / Poem  

Wendell Berry, from *The Peace of Wild Things*  

When despair for the world grows in me  

and I wake in the night at the least sound  

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,  

I go and lie down where the wood drake  

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.  

I come into the peace of wild things  

who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.  

I come into the presence of still water.  

And I feel above me the day-blind stars  

waiting with their light.  

For a time  

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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