Transformation.

This article first got me thinking as soon as I saw the word Easter. Since Easter was just yesterday it was fresh in my mind. The quote said, "Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us." That got me thinking just like the author. I as the author had never heard it used as a verb. How inspiring and different. This introduced to me to Hopkin's and let me see him as an author/poet. I admit I am not big on literature unless it is something that is exciting and fun to me. It's not that I don't enjoy the things in literature class we read, because I sure do. I am just not the type of person that will do a lot of research to come across great poetry. It's like going through a lot of bad before you get to the good, and I don't have the patience for that. I am truly thankful for this class for broadening my horizons on literature and other forms of writing, and my own. In the article it also states we pray with poetry whether the biblical poetry of the psalms or non-biblical poetry open to Christian appropriation, we open ourselves to the possibilities of spiritual experience. I for one was someone who just read for the aesthetic pleasure which I see now is not what I should just focus on. There is more to a piece of literature than that. Going deep down in it can help me to better understand it and relate it to life and even God. A lot of the poetry we have read in class can be related to Christianity and God. Everything in itself is Christ alone, and when we read as spiritual people we are able to relate and connect to it in different ways. Just as we did with nature. And I can almost guarantee the works of art we have read were probably not all written by Christians but they still can be interpreted with a Christian outlook. I think this is awesome for the real world because even though they try to take Christianity out of everything it is still there and existing. Christ is all around us, we can't be blind to it. He's even in poetry. Everything relates back to him.