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[Stephen Guerin]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 5:48 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or as Kahil Gibran once famously said: “You are the bow from which your
> children as arrows fly; let you bending in the hands of The Archer be for
> joy.”
>

Nick you turned me on to this poem a couple of weeks ago and I think it's
beautiful. Who/What do you understand the Archer to be?

On Children
Kahlil Gibran <https://poets.org/poet/kahlil-gibran> - 1883-1931

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
     And he said:
     Your children are not your children.
     They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
     They come through you but not from you,
     And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

     You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
     For they have their own thoughts.
     You may house their bodies but not their souls,
     For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot
visit, not even in your dreams.
     You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
     For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
     You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent
forth.
     The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends
you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
     Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
     For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow
that is stable.
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