My walk this morning was delightfully cool, sweater weather. My reading was especially thought-provoking. Strange how some readings seem to hit home. It is a writing from Longfellow I found in Sara Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance Daybook. She calls it A Psalm for Life.
Let us, then, be up and doing
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and wait.
The last line is the challenge for me. The "wait" is the hardest part. Waiting has never been a strong suit of mine. Patricia Hopkins, one of my earlier spiritual directors, challenged me with Lao Tzu's lines from the Tao De Ching:
Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles
And the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises?
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