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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 


THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD – 11 January 2009
By Mary T. Hoffman

For today I’ve chosen this poem by the American poet Emily Dickinson:

THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD
By Emily Dickinson
(10 December 1830–15 May 1886)

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me, –
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
 
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

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