Love, joy, even sorrow,--yield thyself to all!
They make thy freedom, groveling, not thy thrall.
Knock off the shackles which thy spirit bind
To dust and sense, and set at large the mind!
Then move in sympathy with God's great whole,
And be like man at first, a _Living Soul_.

--Richard Henry Dana.

I was deeply impressed by what a gardener once said to me concerning
his work. "I feel, sir," he said, "when I am growing the flowers or
rearing the vegetables, that I am having a share in creation." I
thought it a very noble way of regarding his work.

--J.H. Jowett.

For we are God's fellow workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's
building.

--1 Corinthians 3. 9.

Creator of all, help me to see what there is for me to do; and help me
to know that I cannot be productive if I am hovering in the choice of
my work. May I learn from thy great works of heaven and earth the ways
of selection and steadfastness. Give me the desire to work and the
confidence that is needed to carry on my work. Amen.