Saturday, October 9, 2010

Godspeed Glenn

The Blaze reports on Glenn Beck's Medical Conditions:
This morning on his radio program, Glenn Beck discussed in more detail some of the physical challenges he’s been facing. Glenn told his audience that he will be taking several days off next week to undergo tests at a hospital “out west.”
He announced over the summer that he's losing his vision. It sounds like his condition involves more than that now. I emailed him the words John Milton wrote as he contemplated the onset of his own blindness:
Sonnet XIX: When I Consider How my Light is Spent

When I consider how my light is spent
    Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
    And that one talent which is death to hide
    Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
    My true account, lest he returning chide,
    "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
    I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
    Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
    Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
    And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
    They also serve who only stand and wait."

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