THE BEST THINGS, THE MOST COMMON

I am not a sophisticate, nor am I an intellectual, but I am smart enough to know I'd best keep my life as simple as possible. Clearly that is how I came to be a seeker of "down home" answers...the common good, according to me.

Somewhere, sometime ago, I read the following by Thomas Traherne and saved it. Whenever I come across it, I feel comforted as I do today:

And what rule do you think I walked by?

Truly a strange one, but the best in the whole

world. I was guided by an implicit faith in 

God's goodness; and therefore led to the

study of the most obvious and common

things. For thus I thought within myself:

God being, as generally believed, infinite in

goodness, it is most consonant and agreeable 

with His nature that the best things

should be most common.

Thank you.