Since they flourish in the abstract, ironically, the best parts of man remain the hardest ones to fathom, the easiest to devalue and the likeliest to neglect. Frightful depths of thought or feeling alone may awaken them, assimilate them, avert the devastation which exploits their slumber .

♣ While they tend to grow elusive or ethereal, confused or confounded, as long as thought and feeling persist, these fundamental qualities, faith, hope, love, charity, grace, truth, beauty, valor and excellence, the elements of human spirituality, will always be valid, always relevant, always healthy, stirring, heartening, always right, just and good and there will always be the hope that man may extricate himself from the mercenary jaws of destruction yet one more time.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com