Letter 4394
My neighbors knew it was me walking in their field, for I had told them of my plans to journey through on a free day.
I came upon a broken bridge. I easily forded the creek. Yet I worried: would they think I had made the damage?
The rest of my walk, I planned all the ways I would tell them it was not me.
I had not stopped to repair. I had not turned back to tell them.
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Lord, let me accept the tasks you set today, even those unplanned and seemingly not mine.
Consider:
Can I stop for the work I did not plan?
Reading:
❖ “Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty will already have become clearer.” — Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
❖ “We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.” — Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
❖ “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” — Galatians 6:2 (KJV)
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~B.R.
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