The Gift of Being Cannot Be a Given

Music: Fugue in A Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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The gift of being cannot be a given: How many trillion accidents made me? And yet it seems no accident to be, Nor seem I less the driver than the driven. Knowledge cannot penetrate my freedom, So absolute it seems I am that am. God may or not exist, but sovereign, I seem to rule by will my rotting kingdom. Very little that it seems, it seems, Is what it is: the being and glory, Nor can I be the author of my story, Graced to witness truths beyond my dreams.