How easy, Lord, it is for me to live with you.
How easy it is for me to believe in you.
When my understanding is perplexed by doubts
or on the point of giving up,
when the most intelligent men see no further
than the coming evening,
and know not what they shall do tomorrow,
you send me a clear assurance that you are there
and that you will ensure that not all the roads of goodness
are barred.
From the heights of earthly fame I look back in wonder at
the road that led through hopelessness
to this place
whence I can send mankind a reflection of your radiance.
And whatever I in this life may yet reflect,
that you will give me;
And whatever I shall not attain,
that, plainly, you have purposed for others.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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