Me: I could quilt all day!

Prodigal: Do you have that time.

Me: No, but I will enjoy this little part that I have.

This is from J. Keble

We must be continually sacrificing our own wills, as opportunity serves, to the will of others; bearing, without notice, sights and sounds that annoy us; setting about this or that task, when we had far rather be doing something very different; persevering in it, often, when we are thoroughly tired of it; keeping company for duty’s sake, when it would be a great joy to us to be by ourselves; besides all the trifling untoward accidents of life; bodily pain and weakness long continued, and perplexing us often when it does not amount to illness; losing what we value, missing what we desire; disappointment in other persons, wilfulness, unkindness, ingratitude, folly, in cases where we least expect it.

If any man offend not in word, the same is perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. James 3:2 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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