Without Such Extras

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com He is therefore the cause of that so wonderfully characteristic Welsh phrase, “Do the little things.” For as I was taught, from a child, by the same old man mentioned above, “God is in the details.” Hope is in the details. And how often in the midst of large, the hope emerges from a small place, and the world turns on an Archimedean hinge. For those reading with the eyes of hope, history is full of such moments, and our lives are full, and nature herself emerged from a singularity. The cynical will never see this, for they have darkened that part of their vision, and put their hope in the wrong things: in wealth, and luxury, in sexual conquest, in control and power, in honours and fame, in sweet revenge and the myriad self-satisfactions. We have enough, without such extras. And against them we pose the mysterious instruction of St David and all other saints: “Be joyful.” For faith, hope, and charity are compassed in that joy.