The Peace of Wild Things

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

Making Sure God is Bearing the Burden - Sabbath Thoughts

"We strongly need to see the manifest hand of God in what we are and what we do. 

We need to be sure He is pulling the load, bearing the burden—

which we are all too ready to assume is up to us alone. 

We must understand that He is in charge of the outcome of our efforts, 

and that the outcome will be good, right. 

And all of this is encompassed in one biblical term, “Sabbath.” 

The Sabbath, Jesus said, was made for humankind (Mark 2: 27). 

That is, it serves human life in essential ways. Without it, life cannot be what it should be.”

Dallas Willard, The Great Omission