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What are some final lessons?
Things are temporary—build for eternity.
Years ago someone put a poem on the wall of the McAuley Rescue Mission in New York City that captured the disjuncture between profession and practice:
Angels from their realms on high
Look down on us with wondering eyes,
That is where we are but passing guests,
We build such strong and solid nests;
But where we hope to dwell for aye [ever],
We scarce take heed one stone to lay.4
Life is fragile—live for your true home.
Yet St. John of the Cross was right. “God is at home. We are in the far country.” And if we are at home in this world we need to be confronted once again with the truth about the world.5