Holiness and Faith Are the Rewards

Music: Preludes dans le tons majeurs et mineurs: #17. Lento. By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan. Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge.

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Holiness and faith are the rewards: In doing lies the seed of one's becoming. Given what the faithless life affords, How could one not revel in the running? Holy days are opportunities, Open doors to being who one would. Longing to be touched by grace, one sees Yet one more chance to choose the unchanged good. Do not think that faith is ever certain: All one's life, like love, it comes and goes. Yet one can always stand before the curtain, Singing for one's soul the prayers one knows.