LESSON FROM A LID
Elizabeth O’Conner, in her book The Eighth Day of Creation points out that developing our gifts requires concentrating on certain ones and letting others go and that this requires commitment. It also opens us to failure. On that subject she has this to say: “When we do not allow ourselves the possibility of failure, the Spirit cannot work in us. in her book, Centering, Mary Caroline Richards writes that at one time she grieved because she could not make a close-fitting lid for a canister, a teapot, or a casserole. Then a friend, who was obviously a patron of gifts, sent her an ancient Korean pot, saying that he thought she would like it because it looked like something she might have made. She loved it at once. ‘Its lid didn’t fit at all!’ she writes. ‘Yet it was a museum piece, so to speak. Why, I mused, do I require of myself what I do not require of this…
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