quote: my avocation and my vocation...

Yield who will to their separation
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one sight.

For only where love and need are one
And work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future's sakes.



I first read these lines--a section, spoken as a code--in a Madeline L'Engle book many years ago. Amazing what you love and remember. Amazing how it means even more to me now.