OCTOBER FIFTEENTH
Reading edition
Virgil born B. C. 70.
Evangelista Torricelli born 1608.
Edward Fitzgerald born 1763.
Being not unacquainted with woe, I learned to help the unfortunate.
—Virgil.
There are some hearts like wells green-mossed and deep As ever summer saw, And cool their water is, yea, cool and sweet; But you must come to draw. They hoard not, yet they rest in calm content, And not unsought will give; They can be quiet with their wealth unspent, So self-contained they live. —Author unknown.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
—2 Corinthians 2. 4.
Gracious Father, help me to understand that while I may be content to rest with what I have gathered, I cannot preserve the strength of my soul unless I share my possessions. Give me a passion for humanity that will advance gifts through love, and offer service without the need of an appeal. Amen.