“Graft your goodness on this grumpy stump”
April 26th, 2008 at 11:19David Ker, the blogger formerly known as Lingamish, has been publishing a series of Cyber-Psalms, with the intention of completing a collection of 150. He has just got to number 33. Some of them have seemed to me weird, or just irrelevant. But his latest one seems to scratch just where I itch. Well, perhaps that is not a good idiom in the context of this what this poem, or prayer, is trying to say. Do read the whole thing, but it is this part which struck me most:
May those who bump into me
Be showered with fruit
Not pricked with thorns.
Graft your goodness on this grumpy stump.
Posted by Peter Kirk,
in Devotional
April 26th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I almost edited that line out since it didn’t seem to fit with the rest. The Cyber-Psalms have been an unexpected spiritual blessing to me as I search for praise without cliché.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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April 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Couldn’t resist quoting you out of context. And it’s worth adding that one of the cool things about you is that you are a speaker of truth rather than a flatterer (like myself) so when you say something nice it really means something.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Thanks! For that bit of flattery you are forgiven.
February 14th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
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