Afternoon Prayer

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    In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
    —Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)