Emily Dickinson's poem, below, gave the title to an old theology book I found as I was going through my library, weeding things out. I memorized this poem years ago, with good reason.
Finding is the first Act
The second, loss,
Third, Expedition for
The "Golden Fleece"
Fourth, no Discovery—
Fifth, no Crew—
Finally, no Golden Fleece—
Jason—sham—too.
Although I am no fan of the easy moral equivalence that passes for "taking responsibility" in these days, it is pretty clear that when you are feeling hard done by, it is easy to place all the blame on the shoulders of the other guy. But Jason, well, as Emily points out, he has his part in it as well.
A little known fact: Finding is the first act is one of those very rare Dickinson poems that cannot be sung to the tune of Yellow Rose of Texas.
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