I received a Get Well card earlier this week from the wife of my dad's ex-boss. I was touched that she took the time to send me her best wishes. What touched me most was the passage that she wrote out on the back of the card. The passage was written by John Ruskin. It took my breath away
In our whole life melody, the music is broken off here and there by rests and we think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us. -- John Ruskin