“There was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting
up in a dark lantern.
At this moment he believed it was worth it.
This moment of supreme beauty was worth all
the wretchedness of the journey.
It was always worth it.
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."
It was the central truth of existence, and all men knew it,
though they might not know that they knew it.
Each man followed his own star through so much pain because he knew it,
and at journey's end all the innumerable lights would glow into one.”
~ Elizabeth Goudge, Gentian Hill
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