Tract by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation

Do you really wish to claim this Christ and his way? Is this truly what you believe about the world? And are you now ready to imagine what bearing this Christ-life into the world looks like now ?

I want to know

if you are prepared to live in a world

with its harsh need

to change you. If you can look back

with firm eyes

saying this is where I stand.

— David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from Fire in the Earth]