Wendell Berry – Commonplace Book

Invitation to Stop – Wendell Berry

By Charles | December 26, 2014 - 2:55 pm |December 25, 2014 Quotation

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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world’s beauty and abundance.

From: Wendell Berry

Work, gratitude, prayer – Wendell Berry

By Charles | November 7, 2014 - 2:05 am |November 6, 2014 Quotation

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Be thankful and repay
Growth with good work and care.
Work done in gratitude,
Kindly, and well, is prayer.
You did not make yourself,
Yet you must keep yourself
By use of other lives.
No gratitude atones
For bad use or too much.

From- Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997