



then I am not one of them,

if an "elect," well then

I have not been elected.

I am one who is knocking

at the door. I am one whose foot

is on the bottom rung.

But I know that Heaven's

bottom rung is Heaven

though the ladder is standing

on the earth where I work

by day and at night sleep

with my head upon a stone.

- Wendell Berry

If there are a "chosen few"