Question # 10 – How would you answer?
Question # 10 – How would you answer? http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Poet-David-Whytes-Questions-That-Have-No-Right-to-Go-Away_1/4 10) Can I be the blessed saint that my future happiness will always remember? Here's the explanation for what sounds like a strange question. I have a poem called "Coleman's Bed" about a place in the West of Ireland where the Irish saint Coleman lived. The last line of that poem calls on the reader to remember "the quiet, robust and blessed saint that your future happiness will always remember." We go to places of pilgrimage where saints have lived, or even to Graceland, where Elvis lived, because these people gave something to the rest of us—music or good works— that has carried on down the years and that was a generous gift to the future. But that blessed saint could also be yourself—the person who, in this moment, makes a decision that can make a bold path into the years to come and whom your future happiness will alwa...