Yesterday's Old Testament reading began:
Who can know God's counsel,
or who can conceive what the LORD intends?
Am I kidding myself to think I hear an echo of that in Mark Vernon's "rumination" on Emily Dickenson?
What she realises is that the truth which is beyond us, which is discerned only indirectly, is the only truth that is truly worth seeking. That which we can readily grasp and manipulate is too easy for us. It’s humdrum. It leaves life too small for us, the creature with an eye for the transcendent. But look further, and what you are offered is what she calls truth’s ‘superb surprise’.
Elsewhere on Vernon's blog: "[H]appiness is the by-product of a life, not something that can be pursued head on."
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