“Lord, when I look on high,
Clouds only meet my sight;
Fears deepen with the night;
But yet it is Thy sky.
Help me to trust Thee, then, I pray,
Wait in the dark and tearfully obey.”
It used to be a custom for travelers in Switzerland to bring home clusters of the edelweiss. The flower is not sought because of its beauty or for its fragrance, but in recognition of its bravery and victoriousness in living and blooming under hard conditions. It grows on the Alps and Pyrenees, at lofty altitudes, where almost nothing else lives, and on crags difficult access, and is among the hardiest of all plants. Thus the edelweiss becomes the symbol of noble life that endures hardness that is victorious amid antagonisms, that rises superior to obstacles.
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