FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2023
“The treasure we have received with our Christian vocation, we are obliged to give: it is the dynamic nature of the vocation, the dynamic nature of life. Just as we recognize a tree by its fruit, so a life filled with good deeds is enlightening and carries the fragrance of Christ into the world. Let us set out each day praying for one another, working together as witnesses of the peace of Jesus, by persevering in the same journey by our practical acts of charity and unity. In all things, let us love one another from the heart.”
Pope Francis
The world is as beautiful as ever though we live in a strange time of outrageous political fevers, a dysfunctional Congress intent on partisan thwacking while basic governmental obligations go unaddressed because they don’t make lights flash and bells ding. House Republicans seem focused on paranoid conspiracies, compared to which, Richard M. Nixon was an honest and upright public servant worthy of having a statue of him in a public square.
If I thought ahead ten or twenty years, I could easily despair for the country, but at my age one lives in the present and so the encounter with the ophthalmologist looms large in my experience. She is smart and funny and kind and she accomplishes good in this world and I doubt that she got there by having out-of-body experiences. She paid attention in school and somehow became fascinated by the human eye and attained skills to make a huge difference in the lives of little kids.
Clarity. I am grateful for it. I don’t need head trips or expansion of consciousness. The best minds of my generation were not destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked angel headed hipsters looking for a fix, some of them became heart surgeons and ophthalmologists and thanks to them I walk in the park and look at the beautiful people and love America for the goodness and fascinating varieties of individualism all around. Thank you, Dr. Science.
Garrison Keillor
4/21/23
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 