To say “life is a pilgrimage” might be naff, but, at the very least, it signals that change is priced in. The red-brick church of my youth has long since been demolished, its poster presumably now landfill. Meanwhile, I fixate on those words of Christ: “Those who seek to save their life will lose it, those who lose it for my sake will gain it.”
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