Birth is a beginning and Death a destination; 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 back again. From health to sickness and back, we pray, to health again. From offense to forgiveness, from loneliness to love. From joy to gratitude, from pain to compassion. From 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
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