'Tis a gift to be simple

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, 

places to play in and pray in, 
where nature may heal 
and give strength to body and soul.  
                                            ~John Muir

The best things in life are so very close:  

the beat of your heart, 

light in your eyes, 

flowers at your feet......

(So) why are ye anxious..........?

Consider the lilies of the field,

how they grow; 
they toil not, 
neither do they spin.....

'Tis the gift to be simple,

'tis the gift to be free,

'tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,

And when we find ourselves in the place just right,

It will be in the valley of love and delight.

Delight in the joy
of being alive.