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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.

 

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THE CHILD’S QUESTION – 16 February 2009
By Mary T. Hoffman

I found the following poem in a book of poetry published in 1926:

THE CHILD’S QUESTION
Emily Dickinson
(1830–1886)

Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like water-lilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Does it come from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh, some scholar, Oh, some sailor,
Oh, some wise man from the skies,
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies?

For more poems by Emily Dickinson, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetry/dickinson_emily.html 

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http://www.all-creatures.org/poetrydir.html

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