Deposition. Heures d’Étienne Chevalier, enluminées par Jean Fouquet (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

They have graduated.

They have moved into the house.

They have left our family never to return.

Now they laugh and dance full of joy.

When they speak they speak clearly.

They are plainly heard and plainly understood.

Painless and free, they wander to and fro.

Joy fills their days.

Love stretches out in every direction.

This is how it is for them and it never will cease.

There is a vast throng for whom we must feel sorrow.

But those of Christ are not of that group.

Yearn for them!

Let the craving to obey come alive.

Enter into the service of the Lord with abandonment.

And you are promised to arrive  among them.