Call the world if you please, "The Vale of Soul Making." Then you will find out the use of the world.
~ John Keats
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?