Today's poem is called 'Wit Wonders' author unknown, written in the fifteenth century and so no copyright issues that I'm aware of!
A God and yet a man
a maid and yet a mother
wit wonders what wit can
conceive this or the other.
A God and can He die?
A dead man, can He live?
What wit can well reply?
What reasons reason give?
God, Truth itself, doth teach it
Man’s wit sinks too far under
by reasons power to reach it:
Believe and leave to wonder.
The photo is one I took recently when in the University of Glasgow chapel to lead socially-distssnced morning prayers, and seems to express 'wit wondering' quite nicely!
Here is the prayer:
God of contradictions,
Anomalies co-existing in perfect harmony,
When intellect is inadequate,
When wit wonders what on earth it all means,
Help us to suspend disbelief,
Let go of the questions, the reason, the doubts -
And enter the wonder of your truth
Amen