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Birth is a beginning
And death 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 offense to forgiveness
Form 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

Birth is a beginning
And death a destination
And life a journey

A sacred pilgrimage
To life everlasting