GLORIOUS PURPOSE
“We are busy working all day ‘burdened with glorious purpose.’ ”
—Dr. Jed Bishop, in Transplant, TV series, Nov 29-20
Busy is as busy does and busy never stops,
Being busy means we never can relax,
Our actions then become robotic and futile,
Then ebbs the will and the soul begins to die.
We work our butts away day after day
To earn our daily bread and pay our way,
Tit’s for tat and quid’s pro quo, at least upon
The surface as we work to Purpose Glorious.
But after all and in the end, what meaning does it have?
Rent is paid, family’s fed, we stand in goodly stead.
All the rest is pseudo glamour, trimmings off the tree.
What ultimately counts in life is that we’re free.
And when do we learn that life is not for competition,
Not the score of gold, the one up on your neighbour,
The fights we fought to win is empty victory,
It is to rise up off the mat, a goodly one to be.
All we need to justify, the measure of our soul.
If to count is counting all our goodly deeds,
All we really need to prove is the purpose
In our daily gift of glory that we be.
—H. W. Bryce
Image by Enlightening Images from Pixabay
