Friday, May 8, 2009

Some Distant Day Arrives

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
photograph by Jack Culpepper


Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.


~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~
Letters to a Young Poet, Letter No. 4
Translated by M. D. Herter

3 comments:

The Orkins said...

When I was going through a tough time a few years ago, someone told me to "Trust that you are exactly where God wants you to be."

That still helps - no matter how crappy of a time I am having with something or how uncomfortable a situation may be, it is exactly what I need to be going through.

Pat said...

Thanks, Gnomes.

Kenny said...

WOW, I have missed a ton. Talk to you soon.