Source & Fountain of All Love

A verse from the chapter "The Light."

There are some wonderful showers of rain passing through right now. Just going out and sitting on our old rickety porch and breathing deep to smell the beautiful scent of petrichor, while the wind blows stray droplets down from above - it's one of the best feelings in the world. Summer showers are truly a treat.

This chapter speaks of some of the ordinary-ness in our lives - reminding us not to hold ourselves higher or lower than others in the world "lest ungentleness or envy touch your soul." That we should strive to do our best, not for reward or praise, but simply to do it as well as we may because we are able to.

There are some parts I struggle with in this chapter, particularly the verse telling us to give freely to those that would take from us, because I honestly think that sort of behavior only works in certain circumstances. There are those - not always people, but often whole companies, countries, systems - who have gone so far, and abandoned themselves so wholly to khear that taking and taking is all they can do, greedily sucking up all that they can wrest from others. Giving freely to these sorts will never sate them; to continue to give freely may even make the problem worse.

But She Who Is, beyond and in all things, will, I pray, guide us in these things, for the betterment of us all.