The man who has many answers
is often found
in the theaters of information
where he offers, graciously,
his deep findings.
While the man who has only questions,
to comfort himself, makes music.
~ Mary Oliver, "The Man Who Has Many Answers", in A THOUSAND MORNINGS: POEMS
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Open your hearts, oh woman and man! Now let your great and wise and powerful be as the poor and foolish little ones:
unembarrassed to receive the incredible Gift, and not knotted in guilt over your lack of worth, and not struggling to "earn" what cannot be deserved, but just simply, joyfully accepting of all that is given so humbly and gladly in Love.
~ from ENCOUNTERS AT BETHLEHEM by Jean J. Andersen