Apr 23
I learned an absolutely delightful new word today: subsong. subsong is, apparently, the songbird equivalent of an infant's babbling - it's the sounds that young birds produce as they're learning to sing with the adults. this is a robin's subsong : )
it occurred to me that to God, all our hymns and chants and canticles must sound like subsong. we're just infants in Christ trying to join with the heavenly chorus, the endless song of the angels and the saints. we haven't figured out what we're actually meant to be doing yet, of course, and we keep getting it all wrong, but it's still rather beautiful. if we give it a little time, the Spirit will teach us to sing.
