My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Because they are last they are already first. Because of their humility they have no need to be exalted. Being the servant has made them the principle, the center. Becoming is not the question. Acknowledging what is adds nothing essential.
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