Monday, September 5, 2011

Mellow Fruit

As one of the things I always wanted to do when I have more time than I need, I'm reading Hamlet and much more than I thought I would, I'm enjoying it. It's a pity that the German translation cannot compare with the language of the original, but at least it allows me to follow the plot. I made it a bit more than half way today.
My favorite lines so far:
Player King:
I do believe you think what now you speak;
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory,
Of violent birth, but poor validity;
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;
But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.
Some of the things that I thought were resolved for my life are put to the test and I struggle more than I would have thought it possible. 

  • To put my trust in the Lord however the circumstance would look like 
  • To be willing to surrender everything to him
  • To give him my life and always seek his kingdom first? 

Currently those resolutions seem to be like unripe fruit, but they aren't fallen off the tree yet.

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