Earthday, Birthday, Breathday: Part 2

       Cummings’ own poem notes the birthdays that continue consequent to Creation:

       (i who have died am alive again today,
       and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
       day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
       great happening illimitably earth)

Look, everything goes on being born, giving birth.  We, the earth itself carry on the work of Creation.

       Of course, what we humans should do with each living birthday to further the Creation, is the question.  As Abraham Joshua Heschel has phrased it, “Infinite responsibility without infinite wisdom and infinite power; is our ultimate embarrassment.”  (God in Search of Man, p. 285.)  But that’s our challenge.   (Continued tomorrow)