Thursday, October 25, 2007

It's late

And I'm tired. But am going to try to say something useful anyway.

John Webster, who died about 1625, was the son of a tailor and a member of a tailor's guild himself. He wrote some good poetry. A snippet from 'The Devil's Law Case' reads as follows:

Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.

If we focus on anything other than loving God with our whole heart, mind and soul; loving our neighbor as ourselves; and trying to figure out and follow God's will for us, we 'weave but nets to catch the wind', no matter how much fame and fortune we accumulate.

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