Daily devotion courtesy of Gilllian Harris, SFTS Staff - Development Department
"... found in the Midday Prayer section of the New Zealand Prayer Book:"
The Lake of Beauty - Edward Carpenter
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world,
and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.
All that you have within you, all that your heart desires,
all that your Nature so specially fits you for - that or the counterpart of it
waits embedded in the great Whole, for you.
It will surely come to you.
Yet equally surely, not one moment before its appointed time will it come,
all your crying, and fever and reaching out of hands will make no difference.
Therefore do not begin that game at all.
Do not recklessly spill the waters of your mind
in this direction and that,
lest you become like a spring lost and dissipated in the desert.
But draw them together into a little compass, and hold them
still, so still
And let them become clear, so clear - so limpid, so mirror-like
at last the mountains and the sky shall glass themselves in peaceful beauty
and the antelope shall descend to drink and to gaze at her
reflected image,and the lion to quench his thirst,
and Love himself shall come and bend over and catch his own likeness in you.
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