A vision without a task is but a dream,
A task without a vision is drudgery,
And a vision and a task is the hope of the world.
~ from a church in Sussex, England (c. 1730)
In the contemplative journey, as we swim down into those deeper waters toward the wellsprings of hope...the hidden spring of mercy deep within us is released in that touch and flows out from the center...In plumbing deeply the hidden rootedness of the whole where all things are held together in the Mercy, we are released from the grip of personal fear and set free to minister with skillful means and true compassion to a world desperately in need of reconnection.