This Is My Symphony

"Look at the birds of the air.  They do not sow nor do they reap,
nor do they gather into barns, and your Heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?"
(Matthew 6:26)

Even A Sparrow

Greg Olsen

Courtesy/Fine Art America

To live content with small means; 

To seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than ostentation;

to be worthy, not fashionable,

and wealthy, not rich;

to study hard, think quietly,

talk gently, act frankly;

to listen to stars and birds,

to babes and sages,

with open heart;

to bear all cheerfully,

to do all bravely,

to await occasions,

hurry never.

In a word,

to let the spiritual

grow up

thro' the common.

This is my symphony.

"This Is My Symphony"
William Henry Channing
(1810-1884)
American clergyman, writer