The last two days I have posted Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay<\/i>:<\/p>\n\n\n
Nature’s first green is gold,\u00a0
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
After reading my post the other day, Melissa commented, “Boy, that’s a depressing poem.”<\/p>\n\n\n
Like other great poetry, many of Frost’s poems have a discernable spiritual dimension, but apparently his own personal faith was, as one biographer worded it, “nothing straightforward”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
So it is unclear if Frost believed that “nothing gold can stay” was the final word, but the poem deserves a very important postscript.<\/p>\n\n\n
Yes, Eden sank to grief, but ever since that day, the Lord has been patiently and powerfully and sacrificially working to restore what was lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I am one of God’s restoration projects and so are you. In fact, all of creation is as well. And one day, there will be a new heaven and a new earth.<\/p>\n\n\n
And grief<\/b><\/i> will be what cannot stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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