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while I don't feel the need to comment everytime I read your blog, I usually find you give me information which makes me "ponder". Sometimes you seem to say exactly what I feel, but can't express as well as you do.Sometimes, you present a side of an issue I haven't considered, and it makes me think. I always enjoy your posts, and please keep them coming!
ReplyDeleteStrangely, perhaps (and I do find it strange), I usually don't know what I'm going to say until I start writing. I often find myself surprised to read what I have written.
ReplyDeleteIt puts me in mind of a poem by Kahlil Gibran that I read back in college. It has always stayed with me and is applicable to any number of situations:
ON CHILDREN
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet, they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls live in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
But seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with his might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
So He loves also the bow that is stable.