December 17, 2009

given in trust

“It is God’s world still.
It has been given to man not absolutely,
but in trust, that man may
work out in it the will of God;
given—may we not say?—
just as a father gives a child
a corner of his great garden,
and says,
‘There, that is yours;
now cultivate it.’”
- Phillips Brooks
(1835–1893)