Shadows of the Workhouse (Call the Midwife)

by Jennifer Worth

Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.

Health is the greatest of God’s gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider’s web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

The control of pain is the first responsibility of anyone involved in the care of the dying.

Pain is a mystery that we cannot fathom, because there is no measure. Everyone’s tolerance of pain differs,

If there is one thing that a dying person needs more than relief from pain, it is love.

More than anything else a dying person needs to have someone with them.

unconsciousness, as we define it, is not a state of unknowing. Rather, it is a state of knowing and understanding on a different level that is beyond our immediate experience.

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Truth is a movement of inexhaustible power, containing within itself divine truth. In the depths of space, matter is forever being formed into the heavenly bodies and transformed into the speed of light and disappears from our ken.

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Old age is a time when we learn the virtue of humility.”

“You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love.”