wiser

there is rich suggestiveness in this interpretation of the pruning process, as we apply it to the christian life. pruning seems to be destroying the vine, the gardener appears to be cutting at all away; but he looks on into the future and knows that the final outcome will be the enrichment of its life and greater abundance of fruit.
there are blessings we can never have unless we are ready to the price of pain. there is no way to reach them save through suffering.
[dr. miller, from streams in the desert]

 

"i walked a mile with Pleasure, she chattered all the way;

but left me none the wiser for all she had to say.

i walked a mile with Sorrow, and ne'er a word said she;

but, oh, the things i learned from her when sorrow walked with me."