URL: http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/gratitude-in-joy-sorrow-poem-by-peter-menkin...

Summary:
This poem came to me as a reflection on a prayer: gratitude is its theme. Written this August 2009, Summertime at night, the work takes on the large theme, "Human condition." An excerpt: How kind the thought comes Of the goodness of God, though Sorrow is our lot. As is said, “Human condition.” Contradiction. For sorrow is the daily sense, The feeling, the experience, the existential Day that finds the Other. In gratitude.

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Tags: gratitude, joy, sorrow, prayer, Christ, human condition