Jun 14, 2022
Christ Plays in 10,000 Places
Trinity Sunday
June 12, 2022
Father Kenny Benge, Interim Rector
Church of the Redeemer, Nashville
As kingfishers catch fire,
dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy
wells stones ring;
like each tucked string tells,
each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling
out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing
and the same:
Deals out that being indoors
each one dwells;
Selves―goes itself; myself it
speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that
I came.
I say more: the just man
justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his
goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s
eye he is―
Christ―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.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins