A lesson by Vincen van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh lived a poor and simple life. In order to buy materials for painting he often went without food. He once wrote:
‘My only anxiety is how I can be of use in the world. But ones feels a terrible discouragement, one feels an emptiness where there might be friendship, and one exclaims: “How long, my God?”
‘There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passersby see only a little wisp of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.
‘So what must one do? One must go on tending the inner fire and wait patiently for the hour when somebody will come and sit down near it to stay there maybe.
‘Let those who believe in God wait for that hour, for it will come sooner or later.
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