I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the idea that faith and courage are intertwined with the divine essence that sustains life, implying a natural order or laws governing existence.
Tracy K. Smith expresses a profound connection to the divine as an inherent current that energizes and uplifts life. She suggests that faith and courage are not merely choices but rather essential elements of experiencing life to its fullest, governed by a set of universal laws that even the divine acknowledges, highlighting a balance between human agency and a larger cosmic order.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, you can use this quote to emphasize the role of faith and courage.
We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.
I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.
Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.
Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.
A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.
Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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