,Journey Across
the Life Span
Human
Development
and
Health
Promotion
,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,
From 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.
And life is a journey,
A sacred pilgrimage
To life everlasting.
With permission from The New Union Prayer Book. Central Conference of American Rabbis,
New York, 1978, p. 283
, Journey Across
the Life Span
THIRD EDITION
Human
Development
and
Health
Promotion
Elaine U. Polan, RNC, MS, PhD
Supervisor
Practical Nurse Program
Vocational Education and Extension Board
School of Practical Nursing
Uniondale, New York
Daphne R. Taylor, RN, MS
Classroom/Clinical Instructor
Practical Nurse Program
Vocational Education and Extension Board
School of Practical Nursing
Uniondale, New York
the Life Span
Human
Development
and
Health
Promotion
,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,
From 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.
And life is a journey,
A sacred pilgrimage
To life everlasting.
With permission from The New Union Prayer Book. Central Conference of American Rabbis,
New York, 1978, p. 283
, Journey Across
the Life Span
THIRD EDITION
Human
Development
and
Health
Promotion
Elaine U. Polan, RNC, MS, PhD
Supervisor
Practical Nurse Program
Vocational Education and Extension Board
School of Practical Nursing
Uniondale, New York
Daphne R. Taylor, RN, MS
Classroom/Clinical Instructor
Practical Nurse Program
Vocational Education and Extension Board
School of Practical Nursing
Uniondale, New York
