everything gray

if Life were black and white

then everything would be gray

like gray-gold and gray-light

gray-red and gray-white

gray-sun and gray-moon

gray-seas and gray-noon

gray-feet and gray-tongues

gray-souls and gray-songs

gray-homes and gray-lawns

gray-faces and gray-dawns

gray-gatherings and gray-joys

gray-love and gray-buoys

a gray world of gray scenes

nothing gay, ev'rything gray

*Each generation expresses its spiritual vision of the world and creates its own plan of the Church.  How could it be otherwise without surrendering to utopia?  What is important is to accept everything that is not essential to the message as provisional and contingent and to struggle for a greater transparency.  For nothing is worse than to abandon concrete existence for social or even moral ends, allowing oneself to believe that in the spiritual order action is born from doctrine.  Action is born from an interior experience, in the communion of faith, which is itself a creative diversity.

-Jean Sulivan