Voice of the Day: Rebecca Harding Davis
11-25-2009
We are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet … Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of [God] who has fed us so long?
- Rebecca Harding Davis
American novelist and social activist (1831-1910)
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