Thank God also that Nicholas Ferrar didn’t burn George Herbert’s poems as Herbert suggested he ought to do after his death if Ferrar thought them no good. What a friendship, and what two wonderful clerics that have blessed God’s church in his nation of England.
It seems the timing of your post was providential. Only today I was out of town and perusing a secondhand bookstore when I stumbled upon a collection of ‘The English Poems of George Herbert’. I have not previously owned any of his poems, only read them online. Suffice to say I bought the book immediately.
The Good Lord must be trying to teach me something. I shall have to discern what that may be.
In any case, thank you for your ministry, your podcast and the good work you are doing with Good Things. I am susceptible to dopamine-fuelled rage-baiting from time to time. Yet how much more enriching it is to the soul and edifying to the mind to contemplate the good things the Lord has given us. (Of course we must not ignore the challenges of our time as you well know, yet to fixate upon them in perpetual outrage is death to the soul).
George Herbert, his thought and writings are a great blessing. Thanks be to God.
Thanks Clem. Yes indeed!
Thank God also that Nicholas Ferrar didn’t burn George Herbert’s poems as Herbert suggested he ought to do after his death if Ferrar thought them no good. What a friendship, and what two wonderful clerics that have blessed God’s church in his nation of England.
Dear Fr. Jamie,
It seems the timing of your post was providential. Only today I was out of town and perusing a secondhand bookstore when I stumbled upon a collection of ‘The English Poems of George Herbert’. I have not previously owned any of his poems, only read them online. Suffice to say I bought the book immediately.
The Good Lord must be trying to teach me something. I shall have to discern what that may be.
In any case, thank you for your ministry, your podcast and the good work you are doing with Good Things. I am susceptible to dopamine-fuelled rage-baiting from time to time. Yet how much more enriching it is to the soul and edifying to the mind to contemplate the good things the Lord has given us. (Of course we must not ignore the challenges of our time as you well know, yet to fixate upon them in perpetual outrage is death to the soul).