Lessons

Letter 4548

I thought I had learned this lesson before. Patience, humility, sacrifice.

Had I forgotten it? Does it brook repetition? Is there some other purpose?

Repeated pain, repeated trial, eventually — repeated overcoming.

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Perhaps the lesson is not what is being repeated, but the relief of what I learn.

Let me stride forward and through, with bold courage. These lessons are what comprise a life.

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Consider:

Can I accept today’s lessons?

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Reading:

❖ “All common things, each day’s events, / That with the hour begin and end, / Our pleasures and our discontents, / Are rounds by which we may ascend.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Ladder of St. Augustine

❖ “I imagined I then understood it completely, but I soon came to realise that the more one advances along this path the farther one seems from the goal.” — Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

❖ “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” — James 1:3 (KJV)

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~B.R.