st. francis

"right now we need Saint Francis. now that kindness is countercultural, we need his extremes of wild charity to pull us back toward it.  and we need his asceticism.  his self-denial, his merry disdain of health and comfort and security...the only stability is the bottomlessness of divine love."

(--quote as passed along by a friend from a recent article they read in The Atlantic, my apologies for being unaware of author attribution)

i do love Saint Francis.  i've had a line from a song in the 1972 movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon (movie trailer) going through my mind these days, "if you want your dream to be, take your time, go slowly.  small beginnings, greater ends, heartfelt work grows purely."