What do you desire with all your heart? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 862).
I
desire the same for me as for everyone else. I wish that everyone be
imbued with a sense of worth and dignity that comes from the
realization that they can be helpful and can make a positive
contribution not only ultimately and finally but in everyday life.
This
means that people are able to make and feel that they make a
practical positive difference in the world. The other day I wrote a
blog in which I quoted from Candide and the song “Make
our Garden Grow” (“We'll build our house and chop our wood/And
make our garden grow.../And make our garden grow..”). That's what I
would like to do and to feel personally—and for everyone else I
wish the same—that they can help make life's garden grow; the felt
reality that they are contributing towards life (not death) and
towards love (not hate) and towards a worthy peace (not a quiescence
based on cruelty). While some conditions are so bleak as to mock all
positive contributions, I would pray that a sense of worth and
effectiveness penetrates even desperate situations.
The
Lake Isle of Innisfree
by
W. B. Yeats
I
will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And
a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine
bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And
live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And
I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping
from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There
midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And
evening full of the linnet's wings.
I
will arise and go now, for always night and day
I
hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While
I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I
hear it in the deep heart's core.
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