D. H Lawrence has a glimmer of gods and Kings. Did not Jesus quote psalm 82:6, which says 'You are gods; you are all children of the Most High'? (John 10: 34)

One night I was reading some poems of D. H. Lawrence. One was entitled “The Gods! The Gods!”. It reads:

People were bathing and posturing themselves on the beach,

and all was dreary, great robot limbs, robot breasts,

robot voices, robot even the gay umbrellas.

But a woman, shy and alone, was washing herself under a tap and the glimmer of the

presence of the gods was like

lilies, and like water-lilies.

The poet is suddenly overwhelmed by the splendour of another person. Sometimes we experience that, but such moments are all too rare in life. But when we enter the eternal dimension of Heaven we will behold each other’s splendour. 

In another poem Lawrence is in Sicily and goes to the well to draw water. He sees that a venomous snake is there before him and he watches it. Twice it raises its head and turns an imperious regard to him. He is torn between fascination and the inherited instinct to kill it. He heaves a branch at it and it speeds away. He goes on:

And I wished he would come back, my snake.

For he seemed to me again like a king,

Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,

Now due to be crowned again.

And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords 

Of life.

Isn’t that true of each person God has made; ‘a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, now due to be crowned again’? Don’t we all hope to hear Jesus speak these words to us: “Come blessed of my Father. Take for your inheritance the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world” (Matthew 25, 34). And shouldn’t we bow down in front of the mystery of the enormous grandeur each of us is being led into? 



And pray for those who are on the final growth to glory, the Souls in Purgatory?