A Woman Is Free If She Lives

The Whole World Opened To Me When I Learned To Read.

I Have Had More Than Half A Century Of Such Happiness. A Great Deal Of Worry And Sorrow, Too, But Never A Worry Or A Sorrow That Was Not Offset By A Purple Iris, A Lark, A Bluebird, Or A Dewy Morning Glory.

In Each Experience Of My Life, I Have Had To Step Out Of One Little Space Of The Known Light, Into A Large Area Of Darkness. I Had To Stand Awhile In The Darkness, And Then Gradually God Has Given Me Light. But Not To Linger In. For As Soon As That Light Has Felt Familiar, Then The Call Has Always Come To Step Out Ahead Again Into New Darkness.

I Do Feel, In My Dreamings And Yearnings, So Undiscovered By Those Who Are Able To Help Me.

Enter To Learn; Depart To Serve.