Wordsworth and faith …

… Informal Inquiries: "The Child is father of the Man" -- William Wordsworth.

I guess that the child I was has proved to be the father of the man I am, but the lines of Wordsworth that have most affected me are from "Tintern Abbey":

…And I have felt 

A presence that disturbs me with the joy 

Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime 

Of something far more deeply interfused, 

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 

And the round ocean and the living air, 

And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: 

A motion and a spirit, that impels 

All thinking things, all objects of all thought, 

And rolls through all things. 

But then, I am a cradle Catholic, taught by unusually enlightened priests and nuns, whose message was mostly to be good and kind and trust in God's mercy.