From the Anchoress, in her latest post entitled The Incarnation: Not For Wimps:

One of the wonderful things about Christianity is that Christ is patient. He also allows the questions. He even tolerates doubt, as we see in the story of Thomas, and in this great poem (also thanks to the July issue of Magnificat):

THOMAS

Here the blade was held to the flesh
Right here
and thrust
and there’s a keepsake
it cries in all the tongues of the fish
- a wound -

The face focused
forehead furled
blue light of dawn
reluctant and cold

Thomas’ index finger
miners lamp of touch
is guided from above
by the Master’s hand

so doubt is permitted
we are free to question
so Leonardo de Vinci’s
furrowed forehead
has value after all

- Zbigniew Herbert
(a leader of the anti-communist
movement in Poland)