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Focus Question: How do we make life worth living?

Darkness settles on roofs and walls even as I hasten toward the town.  I was reminded that this on which I dwelt was but //dry land// “Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you,  and lie down to pleasant dreams where a goddess might trail her garments!"

 Providence! That’s no great thing!  //Accept the place the divine Providence has found for me?//  //Why?// …Isn't a soul in this green world of God's that you can trust,  so you must  Trust thyself!  Every heart vibrates to that iron string.  And I don't count nobody out of that, not nobody

 You know,  I prefer to be true to myself,  even at the hazard of incurring <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> the ridicule of others, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> incur my own abhorrence, since <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> A living dog is better than a dead lion. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> I’ll go not, like the quarry-slave at night, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Scourged by his dungeon; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> but, sustain'd and soothed <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> By an unfaltering trust; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Make your peace with it! All our old pretense is ripped away <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> I have done what I could. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The morning breaks, the day returns <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> fit to entertain a travelling god of equal simplicity about him <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Some blunders and absurdities crept in. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> He'll say, "I see you all had you a little spill" <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Peace! It is Providence, and no great change. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Tomorrow is a new day <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> begin it well and serenely. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Morning was a cheerful invitation to //make// my life.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Even when Hell and Heaven grabble at our backs, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Life is God’s most precious gift <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> He has his goodness now; //I// have my goodness now. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> God forbid I take it from him, since a good man…person is hard to find.