Water and Stone

Water and Stone

Give us the strength to press through obstacles,
The vision to see through artifice,
The determination to overcome adversity

Let us gain the wisdom to listen, learn, discern, and especially, to know when to ignore.
Let us discover the vision to recognise other’s weaknesses in ourselves, 
and our flaws in others, with both foresight and hindsight.

Let us learn to know when to care and when to turn away, 
when to give and when to withhold one’s self;
one’s opinion, one’s trust, one’s belief, one’s faith, and one's love.

Let us understand that everything takes time,
nothing is instantaneous; it takes aeons for endless drips to form stalactites
and for water to carve stone.


Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 22 May 2018