The Ten Gifts Author:Elizabeth Goudge Love, wonder, beauty, delight, compassion, understanding, faith, tranquility, truth and courage. These are ten jewels from the inexhaustible, unsearchable treasure of God. I have loved them in my friends, and as a story-teller have delighted in giving one of them here and there to the imagined people in my books. But are the people in one's st... more »ories as much our own creation as we story-tellers like to think they are? I think it would be truer to say that thay are a mosaic of the real people the writer has known, and wherever a jewel turns up in the mosaic it is a real jewel once worn, or worn still, by some real person as a gift of God. "And so we come back to the threefold thing, the giver, the recipient, and the gift itself, the eternal Trinity that runs through the whole of life."« less