There is a story told by the late Peter Marshall, who was a chaplain of the United States Senate. The title of this story, which has had a huge influence on my life, is called:

"The Keeper of the Spring,"

There was a quiet forest dweller who lived high above an Austrian village along the eastern slopes of the Alps. This old faithful gentle man had been hired many years earlier by a young town council to clear away the debris from the pools of water that fed the lovely spring flowing through their town. With faithful, silent regularity he patrolled the hills, removed the leaves and branch...