How Pilgrims View Affliction   "While I live in the world, my condition is to be but a pilgrim, a stranger, a traveller, and a soldier... When a man is at home, if he has not things according to his desire, he will be finding fault. But if a man travels abroad, perhaps he meets not with convenience as he desires; yet this very thought may moderate a man's spirit, `I am a traveller, and I must not be finding fault, though things be not so in my own family.' If a man meets with ill weather, he must be content. `It is a traveller's fare,' we used to say, both fair weather and foul weather; and we must be content with it. If a man were at home and it should begin to drop in his house, he cannot bear it; but when he is travelling abroad, though he meets with rains and storms, he is not so much troubled."   -- Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646) The End is Not Yet   Home by different ways. Yet all Homeward bound through prayer and praise, Young with old, and great with small, Home by different ways.   Many nights and many days Wind must bluster, rain must fall, Quake the quicksand, shift the haze.   Life hath called and death will call Saints who praying kneel at gaze, Ford the flood or leap the wall, Home by different ways.   -- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)