RE: Life priority - the journey

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If anyone lnows the author of this I would be grateful for the information

 

 

Birth is a beginning

And death is 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 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 is a destination.

And life is a journey,

A sacred pilgrimage-

To life everlasting.