“A grateful heart is the beginning of greatness” -James E. Faust
“For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid.” -1 Corinthians 3:9-11
“Then I should say you ought to go out and open the door to the younger generation.” –The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Master keeps her mind
always at one with the Tao;
that is what gives her her radiance. –Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)
“Every spring, my wife Edith and I kneel in the dirt of our ten-acre farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley and do something that looks, to the untrained eye, like nothing much. We plant seeds. Some of them are varieties that Indigenous peoples have been keeping alive for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years—seeds passed from hand to hand across generations, carried through removals and relocations, hidden in pockets during forced marches, saved when everything else was taken. We put them in the ground, we water them, and we wait. It doesn’t look like revolution. It doesn’t look like resistance. It looks like two people with dirt under their fingernails doing small work in a world full of enormous problems. But after decades of this work, I’ve learned sometimes the most radical thing you can do is plant something you’ll never see fully grown.” -Randy Woodley, theologian and co-founder of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice
The Master Builder isn’t concerned about being great.
The Master Builder is only concerned about the thing being great.
Open yourself up to whatever will be. Let greatness come through.
