Christ Plays

In Eugene Peterson's book, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places He takes the title of his book from a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that says at one point--

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

Peterson comments, "The central verb, "play", catches the exuberance and freedom that mark life when it is lived beyond necessity, beyond mere survival. "Play" also suggests words and sounds and actions that are "played" for another, intentional and meaningful renderings of beauty or truth or goodness. Hopkins incorporates this sense of play with God as the ultimate "other" ("...to the Father")--which is to say that all life is, or can be, worship."

Something to chew on. Food for the soul.

Enjoy!