Contentment: From Three Ladies and a Gentleman #2

"We want to know no will but God's in this question...The experience of the past winter would impress upon me the fact that place and position have next to nothing to do with happiness, that we can be wretched in a palace, radiant in a dungeon...perhaps this heartbreaking is exactly what we need to remind us...that we are pilgrims and strangers on the earth."  Elizabeth Prentiss
Written upon receiving the news that her husband would be taking a job in Chicago, which meant leaving friends and family and a worsening her fragile health.