Sometimes I read something that I simply have to share: Esther de Waal commenting on words by Jean Vanier...
" 'Work is love made visible' says Kahlil Gibran, and love is not doing the extraordinary but knowing how to do the ordinary things in life 'tenderly and competently'. I like these words of Jean Vanier because they put everything into perspective. There is nothing idealistic here. But they ask of me warmth and loving attention to what I am doing which prevents me on the one hand of dreaming of an escape into some form of loftier activity and on the other hand draws me back from the frantic and impatient frenzy of over-activity which threatens to overwhelm me..."
(Esther de Waal in Seeking God, pp. 105-6)
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