Birth=Beginning, Death=Destination EULOGY by Alvin I. Fine

Birth is a Beginning

Birth is a beginning.  And death a destination.  And life is a journey:  From childhood to maturity and youth to age; from innocence to awareness And ignorance to knowing; from foolishness to discretion.  And then perhaps to wisdom; from weakness to strength or strength to weakness-and, often back again; from health to sickness and back, we pray, to health again; from offense to forgiveness, From loneliness to love, and joy to gratitude, from pain to compassion, And grief to understanding-From fear to faith; From defeat to defeat to defeat-Until, looking backward or ahead, We see that victory lies, Not at some high place along the way, But in having made the journey, stage by stage, A sacred pilgrimage.  Birth is a beginning and death a destination.  But life is a journey, a sacred pilgrimage-
                                                             To life everlasting.

~ Alvin I. Fine