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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