Byrnesys Blabberings

I’m on the train to glasgow reading some more of Tom Wright’s "Surprised by Hope" and came across this poem by John Updike:

Let us not mock God with metaphor,

Analogy, side-stepping, transcendence;

Making of the event a parable,

a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages:

Let us walk through the door

………………………………

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,

For our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,

Lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour,

we are Embarrassed by the miracle,

And crushed by remonstrance.

In "Surprised by Hope" p. 60/61

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