Joyfully living during times of happiness, filled with
hope, gathering us into an enlightenment of faith.
There we can contemplate and find our way through life's
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In your poem I counted six hardships overcome, three hopes grasped and one Life Eternal achieved. I may be wrong in the details of my count, but the point is the Christian life you are living is NOT what Mallarme called A ROLL OF THE DICE. It is a journey - a pilgrimage - which a proscribed path and a promised goal - and it is clearly spelled out in your poem for all to see. That's the ENLIGHTENMENT of your title.
Very nice write about going to heaven.