[JustAmy]

By the Sea
by William Wordsworth

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free;
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;

The gentleness of heaven is on the sea:
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder - everlastingly.

Dear child! dear girl! that walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:

Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year,
And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.

[NicknamedBob]

"If thou appear untouched by solemn thought
Thy nature is not therefore less divine..."

Wordsworth had it right. If we reject those among us who seem "untouched by solemn thought," then we become less human.

Part of what it means to be human, and to follow in the footsteps of God, is measured by how we treat others.