I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is
nothing I can give you which you have not got, but there is much, very much,
that, while I cannot give it, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in
today. Take heaven!
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this
present little instant. Take peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet
within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we
but see - and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by
the covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and
you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with
power.
Welcome it, grasp it, touch the angel's hand that brings it
to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that
angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing
presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal
diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty -
beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage, then, to claim it, that is all. But courage you
have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through
unknown country, home.
And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world
sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now
and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
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