September 1933: The Story of Clematis itself (Original Writings, pg 82)

CLEMATIS

And do you wonder that I want to go away? You see, I have fixed my thoughts on eartly things, on earthly people, and if they go I so want to follow them. I just want to fly away and be where they are. Can you blame me? My dreams, my ideal, my romance. Why should I not be with all these things, and what can you offer me that is better? Nothing that I can see.You only offer me cold materialism, life on the earth with all its hardships and sorrows, and there far-away is my dream, my ideal. Do you blame me if I follow it?

And Clematis came along and said, "Are your ideals God's ideals? Are you sure that you are serving Him Who made you, Who created you, Who gave you your life, or are you listening just to some other human being who is trying to claim you, and so are you forgetting that you are a son of God with all His Divinity within your soul, and instead of this glorious reality you are being lured away by just some other human being.

I know how we long to fly away to more wonderful realms, but, brothers of the human world, let us first fulfill our duty and even not our duty but our joy, and may you adorn the places where you live and strive to make them beautiful as I endeavour to make the hedges glorious, so that they have called me the "Traveller's Joy".