The Power of Awe and Love

Ephraim Ephraim was declared a doctor of the church in 1920. In his first hymn cycle he talks about paradise as this creation of God and this thing we hope to return to. He says, I took my stand halfway between awe and love. A yearning for paradise invited me to explore it. But awe at its majesty restrained me from my search. With wisdom, however, I reconciled the two. I revealed, I revered, sorry, what lay hidden and meditated on what was revealed. "I don't know if I do or don't like it because I haven't really tried to read much poetry so I just don't know," you say