You know I believe Heaven is here, everywhere, if we could
only see God, and that, as a future state, it is not to be much dwelt upon,
only enough to make one content with death as a change not infinitely different
from sleep, — that prayer is not an asking, but a thanking mood, — that this
world and all that is in it being created for the glory of God (and for what
other end can such a fearful and wonderful "nature" be designed ?),
we especially ought to glorify him by being thankful and seeing his glory
everywhere. Just how we are to show our thankfulness is a more searching
question; I think not by depreciating this world to exalt another, perhaps by “bene
vivere,” perhaps by “loving
well both man and bird and beast,” — probably by one person in one way, by
another in another.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 255-6
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