CORRECTION
Please note this poem was initially incorrectly attributed to "Author Unknown" - However one smart visitor sent me the following email - Thank you to Drholberg...
"The poem you have on your website...Life is a journey says author unknown but it is a mourner's kaddish in Judaism. It is read at funerals and services in Judaism. The author is a Rabbi in Chicago, Illinois many years ago. He wrote it and when the collaboration of Rabbis in North America 30 years ago included it into the Reform Judaism Union Prayer Book. It is right before the Hebrew Mourners Kaddish Prayer Yitgahdal."
LIFE IS A JOURNEY
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 desecration
and then perhaps to wisdom.
From weakness to strength or
from strength to weakness
and often back again;
From health to sickness
and 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 step
a sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning
and death a destination
And life is a journey;
A sacred journey to life everlasting.
~~ Author Unknown ~~
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...is the greatest journey you will ever be on.
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