CONTENTS

Introduction: Letting Nature Point beyond Nature

BRUCE H. KIRMMSE    vii

THE LILY OF THE FIELD AND THE BIRD OF THE AIR

BY SØREN KIERKEGAARD    1

Preface    3

Prayer    5

The Gospel for the 15th Sunday after Trinity Sunday    7

I. “Look at the birds of the air; consider the lily of the field.”    9

II. “No one can serve two masters, for he must either hate the one and love the other, or hold fast to one and despise the other.”    39

III. “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns”—unconcerned about tomorrow. “Consider the grass of the field—which today is.”    71