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Most Of The Basic Truths Of Life Sound Absurd At First Hearing.

[i]f You Believe In God Omnipresent, Then You Must Believe Everything That Comes Into Your Life, Person Or Event, Must Have Something Of God In It To Be Experienced And Loved; Not Hated.

To Be Sorry And Glad Together Is To Be Perceptive To The Richness Of Life.

There Was A Good Deal To Be Said, Hilary Decided, For Middle Age And Infirmity. The Years In Which One Demanded Much Of Life Were Left Behind, Together With The Bitterness Of Not Getting What One Wanted. One's Values, Too, Were Altered. Gifts That Once One Took For Granted, Sunshine And Birdsong, Freedom From Pain, Sleep And One's Daily Bread, Seemed Now So Extraordinarily Precious.

The Whole Universe Was Stilled As If Listening For A Voice. For The Space Of One Heartbeat There Was Peace On Earth. For One Fraction Of A Moment There Was No Deed Of Violence Wrought On Earth, No Hatred, No Fire, No Whirlwind, No Pain, No Fear. Existence Rested Against The Heart Of God, Then Sighed And Journeyed Again.