David Beagley:  

ing God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall. " - Barbara Brown Taylor Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, betwen act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. -Ged, Wizard of Earthsea in "The Farthest Shore" by Ursula K. Le Guin. I tell priests in Chicago that every sacramental encounter is an evangelical occasion. Don't waste it. A smile, warm and happy, is sufficient. If people return to their pews with a smile, it's been a good day for them. If the priest smiles after the exchanges of grace, it may be the only good experience of the whole week. -Andrew Greeley".