Letter 4532
The animals need to be fed and the other morning chores await, too. These dark mornings I go without thinking from dwelling to outbuilding, task after task that will not wait.
Yesterday I walked glumly along this simple route. Today there is joy in my heart while I do the same things. Why?
Could it be that I accepted the necessity, and decided to embrace what will come anyway?
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If I came to love my chores, can I not also come to love anything? Calamity and woe?
Let me practice acceptance of all I see. Let me live as if I had chosen this life.
Consider:
Can I accept?
Reading:
❖ “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” — G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles
❖ “The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study.” — Ross Gay, The Book of Delights
❖ “And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.” — Ecclesiastes 3:13 (KJV)
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~B.R.