2004-01-21 - 4:33 p.m.
Birth is a beginning
And death a destination.
And life is a journey:
From childhood to maturity,
And youth to age;
From innocence to awareness,
And ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to discretion
And then perhaps to wisdom;
From weakness to strength
Or strength to weakness—
And, often back again.
From health to sickness
And back, we pray, to health again;
From offence to forgiveness,
From loneliness to love.
From joy to gratitude.
From pain to compassion,
And grief to understanding.
From fear to faith;
From defeat to defeat—
Until, looking backward or ahead,
We see that victory lies
Not at some high place along the way,
But in having made the journey, stage by stage,
A sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning,
And death a destination.
But life is a journey:A sacred pilgrimage
To life everlasting.
Author Unknown (R.Alvin Fine?)
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