Little Women

So today I walked to the library to take back some books and pick up some new ones. One of the books I checked out was a 1977 printing of a 1947 illustrated edition of Little Women. It looked pretty well read and it was falling apart so badly the librarian had to tape it up before I checked it out. But the inside had something pretty cool in it. Apparently a woman had donated the book to the library in memory of her friend and after the title page she had written a prayer:

"We are not all artists, God. But our eyes can shape our own masterpieces, whatever the landscape of our lives, wherever we look.

Let us see all things in this world with the enthralled naked eyes of the artist, Lord.

Let us find the beauty that lies in all the substance of living, in the grim as well as the good."

Pretty neat, huh?