“Life is hard, at times as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and difficult moments of drought and its moments of flood…if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him….God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit fathers of inner peace.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit PATHS of inner peace.”
Beautiful, important words.
Thank you
(note autocorrect correction, above!)
The following poetically and spiritually coincides:
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its
own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. – Kahlil Gibran