EVERYONE IS CALLED by Madeleine L'Engle
Everyone is Called
We are not all called to go to El Salvador, or Moscow, or Calcutta, or even the slums of New York, but none of us will escape the moment when we have to decide whether to withdraw, to play it safe, or to act upon what we prayerfully believe to be right, knowing that with all our prayers we may be wrong, and knowing that we will probably be punished by those who do not want universe-disturbers to stand up and be counted.
Perhaps what we are called to do may not seem like much, but the butterfly is a small creature to affect galaxies thousands of light years away.
- from Glimpses of Grace; Daily Thoughts and Reflections HarperSanFrancisco, 1996
n.b. Here's a snippet on 'the butterfly effect' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
We are not all called to go to El Salvador, or Moscow, or Calcutta, or even the slums of New York, but none of us will escape the moment when we have to decide whether to withdraw, to play it safe, or to act upon what we prayerfully believe to be right, knowing that with all our prayers we may be wrong, and knowing that we will probably be punished by those who do not want universe-disturbers to stand up and be counted.
Perhaps what we are called to do may not seem like much, but the butterfly is a small creature to affect galaxies thousands of light years away.
- from Glimpses of Grace; Daily Thoughts and Reflections HarperSanFrancisco, 1996
n.b. Here's a snippet on 'the butterfly effect' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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