THE FRUITS OF EXPERIENCE

'Experience is not what happens to you,
it is what you do with what happens to you.'

Aldous Huxley

'O Lord, remember not only the men and women of good will but also those of ill will. But do not remember all the suffering they have inflicted upon us, remember the fruits we bought thanks to this suffering: our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, the courage, the generosity, the greatness of heart which has grown out of this. And when they come to judgement, let all the fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness.'

Prayer found written on a piece of wrapping paper in Ravensbruck, largest of the concentration camps for women in Nazi Germany