#128 / New Tricks

I have written about the Catholic Worker before, and in one posting I specifically celebrated the Easy Essays of Peter Maurin. 

Let me once again recommend those Easy Essays. Let me recommend the Catholic Worker, too. It's only one penny per issue, but I encourage you to pay more. 

Last Wednesday, when I got my latest edition of the Catholic Worker, I was amazed to see that it was the 80th Anniversary Issue! It has a couple of those Easy Essays inside, and here is one I particularly like: 

The Age of Chaos

1. And we are now

   in the ago of chaos.

2. In an age of chaos

    people look for a new order.

3. What makes for chaos

    is lack of order.

4. Because people are

    becoming aware

    of this lack of order

    they would like to be able

    to create order

    out of chaos.

5. The time

    to create order

    out of chaos

    is now.

6. The germ of the present

    was in the past,

    and the germ of the future

    is in the present.

7. The thing to do

    is to give up old tricks

    and start to play

    new tricks.

Image Credit: 
http://thehost55.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-birthday-present-arrived.html