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In the Features of Faces

March 17, 2010

Posted by Kimberly Allen

In today's Word from Grace Street, Wallace+ quotes from "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" by Gerard Manley Hopkins:

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

He then writes of last night's Vestry meeting, where he saw Christ in the 'features of faces':

It is at moments such as this that the true colors of a community show. And they shone beautifully last night, again, in the faces and in the voices of all gathered around the table. I give great thanks for the Christian community of disciples that is St. Paul's Church.

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