Sharing Traherne

Posted on 14/09/2015 by Jon Garvey

I’ve mentioned before something of my enthusiam for the metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne. The Eclectic Orthodoxy blog has a piece which is just a fairly lengthy quotation from one of the better known parts of his Centuries of Meditations. Read, enjoy and meditate.

About Jon Garvey

Training in medicine (which was my career), social psychology and theology. Interests in most things, but especially the science-faith interface. The rest of my time, though, is spent writing, playing and recording music.
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2 Responses to Sharing Traherne

  1. Ian Thompson says:
    15/09/2015 at 01:32 am

    You never enjoy the world aright, till you see how a sand exhibiteth the wisdom and power of God: And prize in everything the service which they do you . . .

    The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it . . .

    Wonderful!!

    • Jon Garvey says:
      15/09/2015 at 06:45 am

      I’m glad you appreciate it, Ian. Traherne has a good “line” on dust, which for some reason sticks in my memory more than anything else in “Centuries”. Just a couple of sections before the section quoted, he writes:

      Can you take too much joy in your Father’s works? He is Himself in everything. Some things are little on the outside, and rough and common, but I remember the time when the dust of the streets were as precious as Gold to my infant eyes, and now they are more precious to the eye of reason,

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