A Prayer

Here’s a prayer taken from “The Pilgrimage.”  These words echo the reason why I have this blog, the inspiration to make public the thoughts I have in private. 

“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could, and who feel themselves to be unworthy to enter the marvelous mansion of art.  But have even more pity on those, who, taken up the pen, or the paintbrush, or the instrument, or the tool, have turned inspiration into a paltry thing, and yet feel themselves to be better than others.  Neither of these kind of people know thy law that says, ‘For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.’”

And now, I begin…