I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had the treasure in it. I realise now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you. “The Bright Field” in Threshold of Light edited by A.M. Allchin and Esther de Waal (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004) You have fought bravely and suffered even more courageously. You have fallen and risen; you have gone every step with Me and accompanied Me all the way. Hasten home. Hu