God has called you, and we give you back to God.

Wait for me, my sister, for I am coming also, and I will not linger.

I will walk quickly." It was from this sad day of her only sister's death that the first real developments of the mystical side of Stella's character must be dated.
The sudden vanishing in Gudrun in the bloom of youth and beauty brought home to her the lesson which all must learn, in such a fashion that henceforth her whole soul was tinged to its sad hue.
"Now I understand it all," she wrote after returning from the funeral.
"We do not live to die, we die to live.

As a grain of sand to the whole shore, as a drop of water to the whole sea, so is what we call our life to the real life.

Of course one has always been taught that in church, but I never really comprehended it before.