page four of our journey. . . .

An encouraging journey. . . .
lessons on perspective.

Today

Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend.
Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write
a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer.
Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.

Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge.
Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong.
Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands
on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate,
be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.

Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice.
Decry complacency. Express your gratitude.
Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child.
Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.
Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again.
Speak it still once again.

next page on the journey. . . .

We collect data, things, people, ideas, "profound experiences,"
never penetrating any of them. . . But there are other times.
There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves
in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes
from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll