A Christmas Wish
I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which have not got. But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give you, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven.
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instance. Take peace.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet with our reach is joy. Take joy.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty...that you will find the earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it, that is all! And so I greet you with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
Fra Giovanni
Letter to a friend at Christmas, 1513
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven.
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instance. Take peace.
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet with our reach is joy. Take joy.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty...that you will find the earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it, that is all! And so I greet you with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
Fra Giovanni
Letter to a friend at Christmas, 1513
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