“Edwin Muir [twentieth-century Scottish poet and translator of Kafka] is a messenger of faith to us, not faith in statements about God but faith in the light of the divine deep within every human being and life-form. Muir invites us to remember our first experiences of light, glistening in earth, sea, and sky, and in the eyes of those who love us, and to pledge ourselves in faith to every human being and to the healing of Earth as our shared home.
(pause to listen for what Muir’s wisdom stirs in us)
“As the doubting heart longs to trust again
so my soul longs for faith
belief in the everlasting world deep in this world
trust in the sacred root that springs still from Eden
and love for the immortal light in all life
waiting forever to rise afresh in us.
(pause to be aware)
“As the doubting heart longs to trust again
so my soul longs for faith.”
— Edwin Muir, John Philip Newell in The Great Search
by John Philip Newell
