“God is light; there is no darkness in Him at all…if we live our lives in the light, as He is in the light, we are in union with one another” (1John 1:5,7).
Mel Ellis, an expert on wildlife and conservation, has written a little book of fables in which he examines the world around him with a naturalist’s eye and celebrates what he sees with a poet’s vision. The forty-sixth and last fable in the book unfolds in a little dialogue between the author and his daughter:
Daughter: Now that I have read your fables I am disappointed because you gave no space to the “new morality.”
Father: Well, there are many, many things I did not touch on. As for morality, almost every generation claims a new morality. It is a vagary.
Daughter: I’m not quite sure I understand.
Father: Consider the climbing vines. Honeysuckle, for instance, always twines clockwise, to its right. Jasmine always twines counterclockwise, to its left. Nothing can make…
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