My ideal Sunday morning is spent listening to Music and the Spoken Word while eating breakfast and studying related scriptures. This program has a way of inspiring me and touching my soul the way spoken words alone cannot do. Today the program touched on the beauty of God's creation coupled with the trials we face and our ability to overcome. Lloyd Newell told about the poet William Ernest Henley and his battle with tuberculosis during his lifetime and quoted this famous poem about courage and determination. It is beautiful...
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
3 comments:
Thanks for the beautiful poem. If only we didn't have early church I might be able to enjoy a little more music and the spoken word...:) Do you remember our SLC trip and going to see it live, that was pretty awesome!
PS- I'm so glad you're blogging more, now I just need to be better at commenting!
That's a great idea. I never thought to turn on BYU TV on Sunday morning. I'll have to do that sometime.
Thanks for sharing that great poem.
I repent of my non-commenting ways. I always love your posts. I'm glad to have such an uplifting BFF. You are wonderful
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