Life is a journey, death is the destination

Birth is a beginning and life is a journey and death a destination:
From childhood to maturity and youth to age;
From innocence to awareness and ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to desecration and then perhaps to wisdom.
From weakness to strength or from strength to weaknessand often back again;
From health to sicknessand we pray to health again.
From offense to forgiveness from loneliness to love
from joy to gratitude from pain to compassion
from grief to understanding from fear to faith.
From defeat to defeat to defeat until looking backwards or ahead
We see that victory lies not at some high point along the way
but in having made the journey step by stepa sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning and death a destination
And life is a journey;
A sacred journey to life everlasting.
Life
...is the greatest journey you will ever be on.