What makes a Samaritan good is the possibility of the lunge.
SOON, he replied, which makes better sense under the rules of that country than ours. VERY SOON! he added, clasping my hands; then, unable to keep from laughing, he pushed off from the rock like a boy...
You can’t explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn’t even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work.
We and the world, my children, will always be at war.Retreat is impossible.Arm yourselves.
Listening to Dad’s guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, golden and so clean it quivers.
You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.
This was maybe best of all. I never once expected to be someone's nice surprise.
Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rath...
Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory’s oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.
Was working the cold up
People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.
Make of that what you will.
One of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she’s not actually counting on me for an answer.)
The man on the water stood forty yards out.
Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.
It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thin...
A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
What mortal creations are language and memory!