We keep the wall between us as we go Something there is that doesn't love a wall That wants it down. Here, the American laureate reflects on a spring tidying of the stone barrier separating his property from that of his neighbour. Because God readily appears in the practical and the everyday, God is not confined to a tabernacle, hidden in a mass of complex concepts, absent from our plain view and out of reach. God is here with us in us and around us while we do the laundry or needlepoint. God is part of the landscape we walk or drive through.
Words can create dreadful barriers or be powerful amplifiers of spiritual meaning.
Ms. Wolf has a way with words and speaks plainly. She forms new linkages, makes old phrases come alive, and creates new images where none previously existed. If employed in normal liturgy, this phrase is likely to slip right past one's consciousness. Not confined to the words of liturgy or the rites of the church, Ms. Wolf discovers God at work in the seasonal evolution of plants, in her pet cat, in the elements she observes through her kitchen window or during a walk on the beach at low tide. She does excellent studies of people some of whom she admires and some with whom she has problems.