Birds and the Flowers

“I can see how a person who is suffering, or in sorrow, or in need, would benefit from the teaching of the Order, but I do not see what a perfectly contented with life has to gain. In a world at war, it is natural that we try to point the way to peace. In a generation of sick souls, we try to point the way to health. In a materialistic age, we try to reveal the beauty of the spiritual life. When so many are astray in the wilderness, we feel our duty to point out the way the truth and the life. Ambition is foreign to their nature. They have no longing to excel, to do great deeds, to raise themselves above their sphere. They live in the immediate present and they are content just where they are. We can not live unconsciously as the birds and the flowers do.”

(excerpt from the Eastern Star published between 1890-1897)

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“Issues that gravely affect divine humanity can not take a back seat to “color swatches, lip injections and hair extension.” – KG