Fruitful No Matter What: Life in the Garden of Contentment

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, For I had wandered off from the straight path. Here at the beginning of the Inferno, Dante is lost in what he calls “a bitter place” and a “wasteland.” He has no hope of getting out of the dark and into the light until a guide approaches him, the Roman poet Virgil. As the story continues, they must travel down through the icy core of hell and then up through the other side until, finally, Dante make