do not worry yourself about any thing
because you're gonna do what you're gonna do, and the universe around you is gonna do what it's gonna do, and it either will or won't be what you want or need, but in neither case can you change the arrangement, therefore there is no worth in worry.
take peace, for all things are in the hands of God, before our time and after it, and there is no better arrangement to ask for. put therefore all your trust in him, and do as you can best discern he wants of you. for in truth what else is there to do?
God alone knows the number of my days.
and no harder is it for him to make a life ten thousand years, than a day. for all things are infinitely small compared to God.
one of my favorite poems
another of my themes is that all things (including the inanimate ones) serve God whether knowingly or willingly or not. with some people it seems to be over their resentful denial and railing defiance, but believing as i do i try to be as willing and knowing as i can. with my limited vision i think the willing part more important - ("there is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path"). so i like this poem that i found, though not-so-happily as part of a memorial. i am typing it like it was engraved, because that seemed to add to its effect for me:
WE SAW NOT CLEARLY NOR VNDERSTOOD
BVT YIELDING OVRSELVES TO THE MASTERHAND
EACH IN HIS PART AS BEST HE COVLD
WE PLAYED IT THROVGH AS THE AVTHOR PLANNED
--ALAN SEEGER
