Cowper: Have you no words?

Sunday, September 19, 2021
    Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
Meditation:
    Don’t grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!
    —James 5:9 (NIV)
Quotation:
Have you no words? ah! think again,
Words flow apace when you complain;
And fill your fellow-creature’s ear
With the sad tale of all your care.

Were half the breath thus vainly spent,
To Heav’n in supplication sent;
Your cheerful song would oft’ner be,
“Hear what the Lord has done for me.”
    ... William Cowper (1731-1800), in The Works of William Cowper: his life, letters, and poems, New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 1851, p. 525 (see the book)
    See also Jas. 5:9; Eccl. 7:10; Rom. 9:18-20; Phil. 2:14-16; Jude 1:16
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me to embrace what You have given, easy and hard alike.

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