Life, Interrupted

I finally took a moment to go to Teresa and Patrick Nielsen-Hayden's Cafe Press site, and discovered that one of my favorites of their "uncommon comments" is from a longer prayer written by Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated 25 years ago. It ends thus:

“We are prophets of a future not our own.”

And it starts here:

It helps, now and then, to step back
and take the long view.

http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/004940.html#004940