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That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. but there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the lord's.

-Marilynne Robinson

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That Is How Life Goes--we Send Our

Marilynne Robinson

That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. but there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the lord's.

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Revelation need not all come at once. it may be incremental. 'saith the lord god: i will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth i will give more' (2 nephi 28:30). patience and perseverance are part of our eternal progression.

All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. we were the leopards, the lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto himself

Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of god. it seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. great faith is required to give the child up, trusting god to honor the parents’ love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.

But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the beat generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the beat generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the beat generation, the wind'll blow it back.

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. they send me a hero i can't help ... just the sort of person i can't help falling in love with." ... as i sailed into the lake i realized the fates really were cruel. they sent calypso someone she couldn't help but love. but it worked both ways. for the rest of my life i would be thinking about her. she would always be my biggest what if.

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