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Habakkuk 3:17-18 ESV

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

“I need no outer props to hold up my faith, for my faith holds me.” (E. Stanley Jones)

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

주께서 나의 반석이시기에, 우리는 복의 근원이다. 근심과 두려움이 낳은 징크스, 감정과 상황의 요동은 그리스도인과 무관하다. 진실로.

Psalm 71:1-24 ESV

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you. I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent. For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.” O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt. But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone. O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. You will increase my greatness and comfort me again. I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.

Isaiah 43:19 ESV

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

“시에서 발견과 발명은 구분된다. 발견이 낯익은 대상에서 낯선 의미를 찾아내는 과정이라면, 발명은 대상과 무관하게 낯선 의미를 빚어내는 과정이라고 말할 수 있다. 그래서 발견은 소통 가능성(서정시), 발명은 소통 불가능성(비서정시)과 직결되고, 다시 발견은 언어의 투명성(우리), 발명은 언어의 불투명성(나)과 연관된다. 우리 현대시는 발견과 발명 사이에 서식한다.” 

감사도, 배려도 없다. 나의 시야는 비좁다. 광야에서 새벽, 묵상, 기도, 정결을 열쇳말 삼아 탐욕과 교만이 혼재된 우월감 추구를 부단히 지양한다. 이것이 이방인 되기의 첫 요건, 겸허謙虛다.