Friday, April 27, 2012

The Gift and the Giver


The Gift and the Giver

Edward Farrell


We ask for a piece of sand
and he gives us a beach.

We ask for a drop of water
and he gives us an ocean.

We ask for time
and he gives us life eternal.

And it is so easy for us
to fall in love with the gift
and forget the giver.

Source: Prayer Is a Hunger quoted in In the Stillness Is the Dancing by Mark Link SJ

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