I love this children's poem by Robert Louis Stevenson--
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
I don't believe I'm some naive ingenue--I know the world is also full of a number of things that could and perhaps should make us all despair. But still I love this poem. Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was often tormented by his depression, still he could often see and know that every day had "news from God," even in the clouds, or a little leaf, or in the way the frozen tops of the mud puddles sparkled with intricate beauty.
Today I hope I can give my son and myself a chance to notice and see how wonderfully full this world is of news from God.
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