awareness, and ignorance to knowing, from foolishness to discretion, and then perhaps to wisdom, from wene to strength or strength to weakness and often back again, from health to sickness and bac we pray, to health again; from offense to forgiveness, from loneliness to love, from joy to gratitude, from pain to compassion, and grief to understanding, from fear to faith, from defeat to defeat to defeat, until looking backward or ahead we see that victory lies not in some high place along the way but in having made the journey stage by stage a sacred pilgrimage. birth is a beginning and death destination and life is a journey, a sacred pilgrimage to life everlasting. ted kennedy leaves a giant legacy in this body, and we should not forsake it. thank you very much, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. baucus: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana is recognized. mr. baucus: mr. president, following the passing of president john f. kennedy, senator mike mansfield said, "he gave us of his love that we, too, in turn might give." these words ring true today as we remember