Word by word, she said into the phone to Alice Blythe on the other end, "Miss Blythe, you don't need to feel regret or guilt."
"What you've received is the best arrangement that fate could make."
"Your life was exchanged for your parents' lives."
"As long as you work hard, as long as you don't give up, as long as you live well, then they did not sacrifice their lives for nothing."
Sometimes, if you just look at things from a different angle, the sky opens up.
Alice Blythe had just momentarily lost her way; after listening to Lawrence Winters, she really felt she couldn't keep sinking into self-pity anymore.
Did she need to keep agonizing over whether her parents loved her?
They had already given her the answer with their lives.
What she could do—just as the Great Heavenly Master had said—was to live better, so that their spirits in heaven could be comforted to see that their daughter was worthy of what they gave.
