In striving, there is stretching,
In learning, there is growth.
How high, how low,
How hot, how cold,
And with what power,
Shows, and says, so much.
The direction of travel?
Mattering so far less,
Than the Way,
And impact of approach.

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am the good shepherd,
and I know mine and mine know me,
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.
These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice,
and there will be one flock, one shepherd. – John 10:14-16