I was chatting to someone a while ago and I still remember the conversation was quite draining – the person was a good person, but they constantly spoke and re-spoke about how hard they were working and how much the church, God, their family and life itself owed them back. The other day I saw this quote from from Hafiz (a 14th century Persian poet) onMaggi’s blog:

Even after all this time
the sun never says
to the earth,
“you owe me.”
Look what happens
to a love like that,
it lights up the whole
sky.

Thanks Maggie – that’s challenged my thinking today.