78 - The Word on Sparrows

The Word on Sparrows
By Alice Carver Cramer

The young man never said
no sparrow should fall dead
or that to constant danger
it could be stranger.

We must, though still perplexed,
be faithful to the text.



No sparrow falls from the air
but God is there-
falls lifeless to the sod
without its God.

Alice Carver Cramer, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has published poetry and articles in The Yale Review, Harvard Magazine, Nature, Speculum, and the Christian Science Monitor. Her poem on "Mother Teresa" appeared in THEOLOGY TODAY, July 1981, and her "Carol for the Animals" in Oct. 1982.
Dorothy S. Wilbur, the illustrator of the fallen sparrow (cf. Matt. 10:29), is Coordinator of Programs for the North Carolina Botanical Garden. She is also an artist, and her drawings appear regularly in the Garden Newsletter.