Thou must not make division Thy mind, heart, soul and strength must ever search to find the way by which the road to all men's need of Thee must go This is the Highway of the Lord
How -in this dim parade of brutality- might all be well? - But if we trouble it with light, train our sights on the rebellious good, and work to make it truer.
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. You are not obliged to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
A heaven of each moment Each day that passes, the sage discards another useless weight. Finally all the accumulated burden of a life spent seeking something is gone. In its place is a lightness of being and a clarity of seeing that makes a heaven of each moment. ~
Holy preparation, counterweight of surprise, plumbline of hospitality, you are the fresh hay quietly strewn, soft linen bands newly torn, to hold the One who is to come. O Preparation, catcher of the off guard, leveler of all things high and low, you are the smoother of rough edges and bearer of good news. Come, reveal our webs of apathy, with holy, sweeping light. Amen.