Jean-François Millet's, The Angelus, captures a liminal moment when ordinary lives touch the divine—two peasants, bound by struggles of faith, loss, and hope, pause their earthly labors as evening light hallows their grief-worn faces. Resonating with quiet, solemn resilience and the harsh beauty of survival amid unyielding hardship, the image is a revelation of the emergence of meaning from life's darkest moments: a transformation of ordinary struggles into profound discoveries about what it means to be human.

"I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you

Which shall be the darkness of God"

—T.S. Eliot, "East Coker" from Four Quartets