“Let me tell you about ____, that silly word you believe is about… whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your ____ responds to another ____ like robins or bison or maybe you believe ____ is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good.

____ is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal. ____ is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is ___.

You do not deserve ____ regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve ____ because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve ____ just because you want it. “