Thoughts: Over & over, with joy

When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year.

When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way.

In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us.

When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within–a spirit of growth and beauty.

— Helen Keller, from an Easter Message to the Boston Community Church, 1932