The Abbot Moses asked Abbot Sylvanus, “Can
a person lay a new foundation every day?”
The old man said, “If they work hard, they
can lay a new foundation at every moment of every day.”
--Verba
Seniorum (The Sayings of the Fathers)
To be renewed by the call of justice and
service, by the care that others show us, by the beauty and harmony of nature,
to at every moment overcome inertia, our own idle habits, the lack of real
faith, the atmosphere of despair and indifference, the cruelty and corruption
of those in power--rediscovering the secret at the heart of life: love. Every moment a new birth, seeing the world with
new eyes, leaving wrong and failure, fear and selfishness, behind. To be transformed, with a new sense of purpose
and joy.
