The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer
Sometimes I think we feel we need to be doing something really huge to justify taking up space, but this quote puts it into perspective for me. I just love this one.
It's enough just to be. And we water the ground around us. Maybe we even make a wilderness bloom. And it is not that we do it consciously, we just do it because we are.
Even the simple things of life that we take doing for granted, such as washing dishes, are seen to be important if they are not done.
It's enough just to be who we are. Going through our day with as much enjoyment and as much courage as we can muster, hitting some hard or low spots, or even high spots, but carrying on carrying on is really doing a good work.
And yes, sometimes it is work...
Without a word our lives can be a counterbalance to the difficult places or people in life, and that's saying a lot.
Karin
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Jesus in John 7: 38
Originally posted 2007-03-17 07:48:31.
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