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"Perfect Actions"
Final Departure
My dear friend, this will be my final entry from a land I do not understand. I came back to the United States to help the children of a country where family integrity and harmony are sorely lacking. I have seen the beautiful love in the eyes of the children here, amidst an awesome wilderness that I somehow consider home. I don't want to go as the need is great and the command to, "Feed my lambs" is in my heart and mind. I can only accomplish this goal if I have the strength but in a land where individualism and monetary gain are priorities, I find it difficult to maintain my life and related ability to help the children who are so precious and in need. I prepare to board a flight that will take me back to the border between South and North Korea; this is done in an effort to try and determine my place in this world as I reflect upon this matter from "ground zero." As mysterious as it happens to be, this flight is part of a thought I had planned a year ago while still in Korea. In the entry I spoke of the growing concern of South Koreans over the escalating danger of North Korea's nuclear threat. I mentioned at the end that I wanted to be at "ground zero" with my family when the sun came to shine over the cities on Inchon and Seoul. As I have learned by watching the ravens, when an animal begins to lose its strength they begin to gather to remove every hint of it existence. I do not understand. My time is short and I must finish with what little time remains. If all goes well there may be other entries.
.....tbc
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English Lessons
from the days when
Meaning Was Conveyed Gracefully |
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If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea: even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold
me.--PS. cxxxix. 9, 10.
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I cannot lose Thee! Still in Thee abiding,
The end is clear, how wide soe'er I roam;
The Hand that holds the worlds my steps is guiding,
And I must rest at last in Thee, my home.
E. SCUDDER.
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How can we come to perceive this direct leading of God? By a careful
looking at home, and abiding; within the gates of thy own soul. Therefore,
let a man be at home in his own heart, and cease from his restless chase of
and search after outward things. If he is thus at home while on earth, he
will surely come to see what there is to do at home,--what God commands
him inwardly without means, and also outwardly by the help of means; and
then let him surrender himself, and follow God along whatever path his
loving Lord thinks fit to lead him: whether it be to contemplation or
action, to usefulness or enjoyment; whether in sorrow or in joy, let him
follow on. And if God do not give him thus to feel His hand in all things,
let him still simply yield himself up, and go without, for God's sake, out
of love, and still press forward.
J. TAULER.
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