Anne sat in a pain that was almost intolerable. She could not tell comforting falsehoods and all that Ruby said was so horribly true. She WAS leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only; she had lived solely for the little things of life ~ the things that pass ~ forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity, bridging the golf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing from one dwelling to the other ~ from twilight to unclouded day. God would take care of her there ~ Anne believed ~ she would learn ~ but now it was no wonder her soul clung, in blind helplessness, to the only things she knew and loved........
Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same, but the depths had been stirred. It must not be with her as with poor Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different ~ something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration has unfitted her. The little things in life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed, the life of heaven must begin here on earth.
Excerpts from Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
I am reading the Anne of Green Gables series and this passage felt important to me.
'The life of heaven must begin here on earth.'
It's good to hold this in our minds and hearts and to examine what that might mean to each of us.
Love Tansy
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