Show kathleen norris says live a minute at a tinte bell syndicate service J S 0 P R N to live each moment perfectly d is out so that it contains all that ii can hold of love and service is to find your vague whirling fears strangely dissipated you can live that one moment without them und when it comes you can live the next by KATHLEEN NORRIS HERE is no greater philosophy T THERE in the world than the philosophy that teaches us to live a a minute at a time there theria is no surer cure for doubt anxiety or despair there is no quicker road to security and happiness I 1 say security because of late months we have been substituting that word for our old supreme goal happiness we pitifully want security not wealth titles jewels gaiety travel the worlds bitter woes boes and bitter needs have swept away those old weak desires we want security now security i for everyone security to have an untroubled home though it be only of four rooms and a lamp by which to read books and a few beloved faces near us security to go to church on sunday to have simple food on the table three times a day to teach our children what we believe of honesty and forgiveness and brotherhood and to launch them simply and quietly into simple and quiet lives of their own i security for all ali we want everyone to have this not just americans not just our friends we want security for obscure chinese women p pattering itt ering along beside their muddy canals with their open little baskets that hold life giving rice and with a clean bit of rag in which h to wrap the precious scrap of pork we want security for east indian women slipping through narrow streets and jangling bazaars pushed aside by the arrogant cattle they hold sacred obliged to bide everything of their beauty and nd youth except their dark eyes stooping eagerly to drink the filthy sacred waters of the ganges in which bodies and sewera sewerage gd float together we want it we women of america are begging god each day to grant it to show us how bow to hold it we want security for women in the balkans in the jungles of africa in the th e hungry h un gry oppressed countries of northern europe in the poorest slums of the great cities just security I 1 it may be a very low root roof a platter of macaroni a bowl of potage a dish of irish boiled potatoes it may be the goulash of hungary the of russia the tee rice of the orient nothing more but after this war with it fears piled upon fears is over let us begin to spread humble peace humble bumble plenty in every town and village and crossroads hairapet of the world and let us gladly sacrifice halt half of what we have two thirds of what we have tor for the divine knowledge that want and hate and fear are lessened in this world and that fear and war have gone with them remedy for worries things arent going in these days the way many of us would have I 1 them h em go some of us feel that a very little spent upon peace departments me ts would pay us better than a great deal spent upon war but if you fe feel el dissatisfied tt if you feel restless and fearful confused by conflict ing arguments and assertions un able to believe all the badness that Is floating about as current gossip then turn to the age old wisdom of the great spiritual leaders who gave us this theory of living each tiny space of time only for itself who revealed to us the magic of sacrament of the moment to live each moment perfectly to round it out so that it contains all that at can hold of love and service is to find your vague whirling tears fears strangely dissipated you can live that one moment without them and when it comes you can live the next through all lifes changes this one simple little rule will still carry you 5 safely nothing can disturb it no yesterday with all its mistakes no tomorrow with all its imagined pitfalls just this one moment to make as happy as you can for or everyone about you we laugh at the small child w who ho anticipates trouble we quote w with ath amusement the soliloquy of the new england woman on a sunday night long ago tomorrow monday and that big wash tuesday all my ironing wednesday this big place to clean half the week gone and nothing donel banish fear but when it comes to nations borrowing trouble and imagining enmities m atles there is no laughter we take that very seriously too seriously stop taking it seriously this moment do what you can in all charity and loyalty do exactly what your own conscience and knowledge of events dictates dont worry because it more and because perhaps and maybe and possibly and they say and someone heard beard cut that all out banish it by the magic of the sacrament of the moment in ent the history of the past is full of strange twists surprises reversals ver changes the history we are living today will be nothing comes out as our fanciful fears construct it and the only thing to fear Is fear because nations have made mistakes and have been misled mean they will always make mistakes always be misled sometimes they reform sometimes they cone come to a new birth we were the rebel nation once 0 outcast colon colonials fals without grace or dignity our decent blood thinned by the flotsam and jetsam the lees and dregs of the old worlds vagrants and criminals we survived it we do so badly in making ourselves promptly into the greatest nation of the world france had her dark hour religion destroyed intelligentsia destroyed calendar destroyed st the very walls of her capitol spattered high with blood only years ago decency Civilization to come back bach all ali central europe swarmed with with homeless desperate outlaws tor for 20 years after the hundred years war and so she will again but time heels heals dictators die in one way or another decency and civilization creep back and presently the ships begin to move again and the returning travelers begin to tell us how things are going over there and this time we wont laugh at their debased curr currency enry take advantage of their ruin this time well all rebuild together well live a ani minute ne at a time making th the pe afe c moments run together |