As The Willow Bends

This prayer is published in upcoming issue of Sacred Journey: The Journal of Fellowship in Prayer- June/July, 2008, pg. 26, $4.00, www.sacredjourney.org.

As The Willow Bends

As the willow bends to the wind

And the leaf curls to the rain,

O Lord, I surrender to You.

Lead me on the straight way-

The way of thy servants;

The way upon which Thou

Has Bestowed Thy Mercy.  SB

Comments

[Emmanuel J. Karavousanos]

Given ultimate reality is the goal, perhaps it would be wise for us to look at words given to us by a number of well known individuals who discussed looking toward familiar, obvious and known things, and things that are taken for granted. We tend to look toward the complex and the deeply difficult when in fact, we should analyze what we already know. Crazy? Perhaps not! I have spoken at several conferences on conscousness over the last 3 years, most recently at Yale Divinity School. Ultimate reality has a logical, yes, a logical explanation which is based on the analysis of familiar, obvious and things we already know. Here is the basis:

We need education in
the obvious more than
investigation of the
obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Familiar things happen
and mankind does not
bother about them.
Alfred N. Whitehead

No question is so
difficult to answer as
that to which the answer
is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing evades our
attention as
persistently as that
which is taken for
granted.
Gustav Ichheiser

Because it's familiar, a
thing remains unknown.
Hegel

The unapparent connection
is more powerful than the
apparent one.
Heraclitus

It is from the above foundation where the insight we seek -- ultimate reality -- can be experienced.

Respectfullly submitted,

Emmanuel J. Karavousanos