Sea the Easter Moon

 THE FOOTPATH to PEACE by Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
(I thought this said it all on this Easter Sunday......)
"To be glad of life because it gives yo the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars....

to be satisfied with your possessions...

 but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them....

To despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness...

 To fear nothing except cowardice....

 To be governed by your admirations.....

 rather than by your disgusts......

 To covet nothing that is your neighbour's.....

 EXCEPT his kindness of heart.......

 and gentleness of manners.....

 To think seldom of your enemies.....

 Often of your friends.....

 And every day of Christ.....

 To spend as much time as you can.....

 with body, and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors.......

 These are little guide-posts on the footpath to peace..."
(Poem taken from "1000 Beautiful Things" 1948)

 Henry Van Dyke was a Minister, Author and professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 1923.He was an ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxemborg during WWI, and great friend of Helen Keller , who said that Van Dyke was one of those people who tried to make the world better.

 Photos: Campbell  River, B.C. Canada Discovery Passage.
 Michelle McConachie Woods 2016