“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting evil in the fields that we know so that those who come after may have clean earth to till.”
These beautiful lines from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” give us both hope and a sense of direction in hard times. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by evil in the world, baffled and bombarded by global problems. We want to see change. We may wish we had the power to heal what plagues the world, but we often feel powerless.
