Day: November 6, 2014

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Crossing over to the dark side.

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Ignorance is (not always) Bliss

For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on un-historic acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

– George Eliot (1819-1880) [Mary Ann Evans]

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“…it was my heart broken by the blight…”

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]

by Louise Glück
In your extended absence, you permit me
use of earth, anticipating
some return on investment. I must report
failure in my assignment, principally
regarding the tomato plants.
I think I should not be encouraged to grow
tomatoes. Or, if I am, you should withhold
the heavy rains, the cold nights that come
so often here, while other regions get
twelve weeks of summer. All this
belongs to you: on the other hand,
I planted the seeds, I watched the first shoots
like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly
multiplying in the rows. I doubt
you have a heart, in our understanding of
that term. You who do not discriminate
between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,
immune to foreshadowing, you may not know
how much terror we bear, the spotted leaf,
the red leaves of the maple falling
even in August, in early darkness: I am responsible
for these vines.
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November 6, Proverbs 15:31-32

“Listen to good advice if you want to live well, an honored guest among wise men and women. An undisciplined, self-willed life is puny.”

Proverbs 15:31-32 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

Good advice is an honored guest, only sometimes we have trouble recognizing the guest, and think it to be a stranger or intruder.  May it be that we find the discernment to recognize one from another.  Interesting choice of word to describe an “undisciplined and self-willed” life: puny.  It is the smallest of the small – a trivial, almost unseen thing.Â