Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~ from THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN
I saw before me a huge crowd which no one could count from every nation and tongue. They stood before the throne and the Lamb, dressed in long white robes and holding palm branches in their hands...They said, Amen! Praise the glory, wisdom and thanksgiving and honor, power and might to our God forever.