We would have inward peace,
yet will not look within;
we would have misery cease,
yet will not cease from sin.
Once, read your own heart right
and you will have done with fears;
man gets no other light
though he search a thousand years.
—Matthew Arnold, 1852
This post is an excerpt from Prayers for Hard Times by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.