The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

by Maria Augusta von Trapp

IT WILL BE very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn’t seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true—the joy of anticipation is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

burden without being weighted, and renders sweet all that is bitter. Love knows no limits, feels no burden, thinks nothing of troubles, attempts more than it is able, because it believes that it may and can do all things; for this reason it is able to do all, performing much where he who does not love fails and falls.