Dragonflies Draw Flame

My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, -- the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
~The Windhover

 ... and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.  ~"The Wreck of the Deutschland"

….. Christian spirituality and Hopkins…”in the conjunction of prayer and poetry "there lives the dearest freshness deep down things" -- the encounter with self, the search for God's touch, the feeling that Christ finds me in all the imperfect particularities of my life, and therein invites, encourages, and challenges me to act justly, compassionately, faithfully.”  It spurs me to continue the quest for some sense of normalcy and integration.  In Hopkins' words:

...the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
          --"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"