Footprints

I follow Fr. James Martin, SJ on Facebook. He is the author of Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor and Laughter are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life. He's also done some amusing blogging for the Huffington Post.

Tonight he's done a really nice post on his Facebook page about the popularity of the story "Footprints", and how its very popularity causes some people to snobbishly discount this story as being insignificant. He says:

"The Holy Spirit speaks through both "high" and "low" theology, and, besides, why do we need to make such distinctions at all? I'll bet that the Beatitudes didn't sound all that sophisticated either."

If you've never read the footprint story before, you should. You can read it here.
And below you will find a comic that comes into my mind every time I hear the story...

Space Robot Spiritual

Happy Sunday!
Here is a youtube video of my favourite children's performers: The Secondhand Pants. They are a group based in Winnipeg. I've seen them several times at the Winnipeg Folk Festival singing out of a science-folktion jukebox.

i thank you God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

--ee cummings

"Your Names are so many, and Your Forms are endless. No one can tell how many Glorious Virtues You have"