On consideration (Excerpt)

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Go out into

the field of you Lord and

consider how even today it abounds

in thorns and thistles

in fulfillment of the ancient curse.

Go out, I say, into the world

for the field is the world and it is

entrusted to you.

Go out into it not as a Lord

but as a steward, to oversee and to

manage that for which you must

render and account.

Go out, I should have said, with

careful responsibility, and

responsible care.

By Bernard of Clairvaux

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